Brian Lara the legendary cricketer

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Lara honoured by team mates

Lara honoured by team mates

Brian Lara(full name:Brian Charles Lara) nicknamed as the prince was born in 2nd May 1969.He holds the record for the highest individual score in test innings with a 400 not out.He started his international cricket in the west Indies cricket team.He is one of the best batsman that the international cricket had seen.He is a left handed batsman and admired by his unique style of batting.

Brian Lara at the age of six got in to the world of cricket by joining in the Sunday coaching sessions in Harward coaching centre.

He has got batting techniques at this tender age.At the age of fourteen he joined the Fatima college where he developed as a promising young cricket player under cricket coach Harry Ramdas.At this same age he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys’ league and he got selected to the Trinidad national under-16 team.At the age of fifteen Lara played in the West Indian under-19 tournament and he represented the Under-19 west Indies cricket team in that same year.

1987 was a golden year for Lara,when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs and also he captained Trinidad and Tobago which finally won the tournament due to a match winning 116 from Lara.In 1988 he was selected to the West Indies team,but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father which made him to withdrew from the team.But he captained west Indies B team in Zimbabwe in the following year and scored 145.In 1990 at the age of twenty he started his International career in ODI as well as test both against Pakistan.

Lara scored 9 double centuries second only to Bradman’s twelve.

Brian Lara had laid a foundation called Pearl and Bunty in memory of his parents and it is also a charitable organization which addresses health and social care issues.He is also the ambassador for sport of the public of Trinidad and Tobago.

Test centuries of Brian Lara

Runs Against Year
1 277 AUS 1993
2 167 ENG 1993
3 375 ENG 1994
4 147 NZ 1995
5 145 ENG 1995
6 152 ENG 1995
7 179 ENG 1995
8 132 AUS 1997
9 103 IND 1997
10 115 Sri Lanka 1997
11 213 AUS 1999
12 153* AUS 1999
13 100 AUS 1999
14 112 ENG 2000
15 182 AUS 2000
16 178 Sri Lanka 2001
17 221 Sri Lanka 2001
18 130 Sri Lanka 2001
19 110 AUS 2003
20 122 AUS 2003
21 209 Sri Lanka 2003
22 191 Zimbabwe 2003
23 202 RSA 2003
24 115 RSA 2004
25 400* ENG 2004
26 120 Bangladesh 2004
27 196 RSA 2005
28 176 RSA 2005
29 130 PAK 2005
30 153 PAK 2005
31 226 AUS 2005
32 120 IND 2006
33 122 PAK 2006
34 216 PAK 2006

ODI Centuries of Brian Lara

Runs Against Year
1 128 PAK 1993
2 111* RSA 1993
3 114 PAK 1993
4 153 PAK 1993
5 139 AUS 1995
6 169 Sri Lanka 1995
7 111 RSA 1996
8 146* NZ 1996
9 104 NZ 1996
10 102 AUS 1997
11 103* PAKAUS 1997
12 110 ENG 1998
13 117 Bangladesh 1999
14 116* AUS 2001
15 111 Kenya 2002
16 116 RSA 2003
17 116 Sri Lanka 2003
18 113 Zimbabwe 2003
19 156 PAK 2005

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