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Hard to say, and this is why these comparisons are so hard. Tendulkars highest test score was 248*, we all know Lara's. Tendulker had around 20 more hundreds but played around 70 more tests.
Another thing to take into account. The amount of pressure on Tendulker with around 1b people watching his every move. To handle that sort of pressure is unbelievable. Lara didn't have that pressure, but he did carry a less than average West Indies team for a long time.
Lara had 3 test scores that went well past Tendulkar’s best of 248.
400
375
277
20 of Lara’s 34 test tons were scores of over 150.
It may have looked like he could throw his wicket away with a loose shot but the reality is that those loose shots more often than not sent the ball flying into or over the fence at great velocity.
In my time I think I have only seen 3 batsmen who could instil a fear into an opposition such that they could turn a match on it’s head so rapidly that you wouldn’t know what happened. Lara, Richards and Gilchrist. Their destructive power at test level was immense.