Brian Lara Biography
Full name Brian Charles Lara
Born May 2, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad
Major teams West Indies, ICC World XI, Marylebone Cricket Club, Mumbai Champs, Northern Transvaal, Southern Rocks, Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 5 ft 8 in
Education Fatima College, Trinidad
Brian
Charles Lara, TC, OCC (born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago) is
a former West Indian cricketer, who is widely regarded as one of the finest
batsmen ever. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and
holds several cricketing records. He holds the record for the highest
individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire
against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class
cricket history. He also holds the record for the highest individual score in a
test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004.
Remarkably,
he is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple
century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over
the course of a senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most
number of runs in a single over, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin
Peterson of South Africa in 2003. Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not
out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden
as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next
only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes test match of
1937.
Muttiah
Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in
One Day Internationals (ODIs), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among
all batsmen in the world. He was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the
World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to
receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other
two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne. Brian Lara is popularly
nicknamed as The Prince of Trinidad or simply The Prince.
Born May 2, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad
Major teams West Indies, ICC World XI, Marylebone Cricket Club, Mumbai Champs, Northern Transvaal, Southern Rocks, Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 5 ft 8 in
Education Fatima College, Trinidad
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