Brian Lara
Brian Lara
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AMis a former Trinidadian international cricket player. He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all-time. 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...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth2 May 1969
CitySanta Cruz, Trinidad And Tobago
The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar
I think the guys are all geared up. I think we understood where we all went wrong in Melbourne and we are working at it. We've got a couple of new faces, a new captain, and I think it is more of your natural ability comes out in the Test arena rather than the one-day arena.
Today he smiled when he referred to my first century there.
Chris Gayle will almost certainly play tomorrow. It will be good to have his batting, but it will also be as important to have him in the slips.
He made a great name for himself in the Caribbean,
If we had rested him we might have had his services in Durban and here.
I think you've got to match them, stride for stride, but you've also got to be very consistent and it's got to be over a long period of time.
People are always asking me when? when? I say to them 'You tell me.
We had some great individual performances but one of the things we learnt from the English is how to put a game together. They played as a team for the whole five days all series,
To beat Barbados in Barbados, to literally take the Cup off their shelf is an amazing feeling.
The fact that a lot of former great players have taken time out to give me a call over the last couple of weeks, to instill some interest in me, in revisiting my position as a member of the West Indies team was in itself a very humbling experience.
When you pick seven batsmen you expect to win the match. Chris (Gayle) played pretty well, but the team didn't pull together.
What I've seen from young Smith so far is tremendous. His work ethic is great and that is what you need. You need to prepare yourself properly for Test cricket.
We've got a World Cup coming up and I don't need to shake any feathers or get under the skin of anyone but what we have in the next 12 months they will understand that we need to produce a team to go along with the whole big idea of hosting a World Cup.