Brian
Charles Lara T.C., H.B.M.
May 2, 1969, in Santa Cruz,
Trinidad.
West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, Warwickshire,
Northern Transvaal.
Professionally coached,
Lara was still a teenager when he started playing
first class cricket and, in only his second game,
blasted a century against a Barbados attack. He
made his test debut against Pakistan at Lahore
in the 1990/91 series, but it was not until the
West Indies tour to Australia in 1992/93 that
Lara 'came of age.'
He scored a brilliant 277 in the Sydney test.
Later, when England toured the West Indies in
1994, he set a world record by scoring 375 during
a single test. He went on to post a new record
for the highest individual first class score of
501. By 2001, Lara had amassed 7,423 runs at an
average of 49.48 with 18 centuries to his name.
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The
most recent cricket sensation, Brian Lara,
took his place among the elder cricket
statesmen at the May 8 Sticky Wicket West
Indies Cricket Hall of Fame induction
ceremony |
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