![]() His first selection for the full West Indies team followed in due course, but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father and Lara withdrew from the team. Later that year, his innings of 182 as captain of the West Indies Under-23s against the touring Indian team further elevated his reputation. Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals. In his second first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies teams. In January 1988, Lara made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the Red Stripe Cup against Leeward Islands. He captained the tournament-winning Trinidad and Tobago, who profited from a match-winning 116 from Lara. When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under-19 youth tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 cricket.Ĭricket career Early first-class career Lara batting for Warwickshire in 1994ġ987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs breaking the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year. Aged 14, he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys' league, with an average of 126.16 per innings, which earned him selection for the Trinidad and Tobago national under-16 team. A year later, at fourteen years old, he moved on to Fatima College where he started his development as a promising young player under cricket coach Harry Ramdass. He then went to San Juan Secondary School, which is located on Moreau Road, Lower Santa Cruz. As a result, Lara had a very early education in correct batting technique. His father Bunty and one of his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays. Early life īrian is one of eleven siblings. He has the dubious distinction of playing in the second-highest number of test matches (63) in which his team was on the losing side, just behind Shivnarine Chanderpaul (68). īrian Lara is popularly nicknamed as "The Prince of Port of Spain" or simply "The Prince". In 2013, Lara received Honorary Life Membership of the MCC becoming the 31st West Indian to receive the honor. In September 2012 he was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame as a 2012–13 season inductee. īrian Lara was appointed honorary member of the Order of Australia on 27 November 2009. Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 19 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne. Muttiah Muralitharan has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world. ![]() Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 was rated by Wisden 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. Lara also held, for 18 years, the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over of a Test match when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003 (overtaken by Jasprit Bumrah in 2022). He is the only batsman in the history of international test cricket to have scored 400+ runs in an innings. Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out at Antigua during the 4th test against England in 2004. As captain, Lara led the West Indies team to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the first time the team won any major ICC trophy since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including 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. ![]() Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC (born ) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
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