David Warner was criticised from a certain section of the fanfare for surpassing Sir Don Bradman's highest Test score of 334 through his epic triplet against Pakistan in the second Test of the series in Adelaide. But the southpaw has now found support from former Australia skipper Mark Taylor, who said he too wanted to go one past Sir Don in his 1998 knock versus Pakistan before out of respect deciding against it and declaring on 334 at the end of day's play. 

Taylor's was back then the highest-ever Australian individual Test score and unsurpassed until 2003 when in Perth, Matthew Hayden took a Zimbabwean bowling line-up to task with a 380. 

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"Records are meant to be broken," Taylor was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au. "I got to 334 with two balls to go on the second night of that game. And I tried to hit them as David did."

"I tried to hit them for runs and they both were fielded. One was really well fielded by Ijaz Ahmed, who stopped me from going past Bradman's score."

"And if it did go past him, I would have taken the runs. And I would have ended up on 335 because the game is not about individual records. The game is about winnings and losing."

Taylor said he didn't stretch the innings further and bat again on Day 3 back then because of the public scrutiny that would've followed. 

"I contemplated because I thought maybe going out to bat for 20 minutes on the third day would put them out in the field again."

"But then I did think if I ended up 341 not out or 343, I was worried people would assume I only went out there to go past Bradman's score," he added. 

The flamboyance with which Warner batted, though, will remain memorable; not for once did he let a struggling Pakistan attack settle in.  Helping Australia pile on an insurmountable 589/3 before the hosts scalped six of the visitors' first innings wickets on next to nothing by the end of stumps on Day 2. 

(Inputs from cricket.com.au)