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
Australia came out victorious but I'm sure you'll agree we've got a good group of young players, very exciting players, and guys who want to represent their country.
This is going to be my last time in New Zealand and I want it to be peaceful, but I wish the media had a little bit more respect for West Indies cricket.
This is the time to plan properly with the World Cup upon us and start to turn around the game in the Caribbean. West Indies cricket is at a stage where upward mobility is necessary and we have to all start working to achieve this.
It's a situation where we still have to sit and talk. It's not just my decision but I am very much interested in playing in the World Cup.
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.
People are always asking me when? when? I say to them 'You tell me.
Coming on the back of six poor performances -- on that front, I really enjoyed it. I didn't think it was my prettiest (innings). But coming out and scoring a double-century against the best team in the world on the opening day of the test match, it's a special feeling.
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.
To beat Barbados in Barbados, to literally take the Cup off their shelf is an amazing feeling.
We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.
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,
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.
Today he smiled when he referred to my first century there.
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.