Cricket Mar 21, facebook. Brian Charles Lara Profile. One look at Brian Charles Lara's Test scores, and there is no doubt in one's mind that here is a batsman with a vociferous appetite for runs. In the year , he broke his countryman Gary Sobers' long standing record for many decades by scoring a brilliant As if to prove that this was not a fluke, he followed it up with an unbeaten in a first class match for Warwickshire the following season.
In , Lara became the first batsman to reclaim the highest individual Test score record by scoring a against England, in the process breaking Hayden's Lara's attitude towards cricket can be best described as moody brilliance.
To go with the above records, he is probably the only batsman to have tackled Murali the way he did, scoring odd runs in a three match series in Sri Lanka, his innings epitomized by quicksilver feet movement. And then there were times, when he looked good to be anywhere but the batting crease, almost as if his mind's not on the job. The test series ended in a 2—2 draw. In the year , Brian resigned as captain of the Indies side deciding to take a break from cricket for four months.
He was re-appointed captaincy in In March , Lara declined being selected for the West Indian side because of a dispute over sponsorship deal, but returned to the side scoring an emphatic However, he lost his captaincy again to Shivnarine Chanderpaul. On April 26th Lara was re-appointed captain for the third time which followed the resignation of Chanderpaul who was captaining the side for thirteen months.
Brian was overweight and had hamstring issues. Occasional hundreds were all that he scored. He could score just 18 runs and was run out after a miscommunication with Marlon Samuels. With Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, the basics of their craft could be at least imitated by mortals, although the results and consistency would be way beyond the realm of lesser men.
However, when it came to Lara, even efforts at mirroring were beyond the best of them. The twinkling of the toes as he went down to meet the ball, the pull played with a straight bat with both feet off the ground, the angled bat finding gaps through the off side again and again and again.
When Lara was in full flow, it ended in a deluge of runs, cascading along with unrestrained primal beauty like the highest mountain water-falls. Personal Information. A hero, a magician, an entertainer, a match-winner, a saviour, a leader, a tragic romantic, Brian Charles Lara, like a masterful actor, slipped in and out of several roles with effortless ea Full profile.
A hero, a magician, an entertainer, a match-winner, a saviour, a leader, a tragic romantic, Brian Charles Lara, like a masterful actor, slipped in and out of several roles with effortless ease. First thing's first, Lara will forever be remembered as one of the greatest batsmen of the modern era, bracketed alongside the elite company of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis.
Lara's wizardry and sheer style though would trump any batsman including the aforementioned troika. Another attribute that set him up as a cut above the rest was his voracious appetite for big, massive scores. Armed with a high backlift, generating that typical Caribbean flourish, Lara was equally efficient against spin and pace. Lara initially excelled in junior soccer and table tennis but cricket was his burning love.
As a 15 year old lad at Fatima college in Port of Spain, Lara amassed as many as 7 three figure scores in a single season of the inter-school competition.
Under and first-class cricket followed suit. In only his second first-class encounter, the southpaw held fort for more than minutes, compiling 92 against Trinidad and Tobago's sporting rivals - Barbados - in a sterling effort that defied the likes of Joel Garner and Malcom Marshall.
In the absence of Viv Richards, Lara was handed his Test debut the same year against Pakistan in Lahore, making 44 and 6.
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