brian lara Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
brian lara is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Brian Charles Lara
Born
May 02, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad
Age
54 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak Googly
Playing Role
Batter
Height
5ft 8in
Education
Fatima College, Trinidad
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 131 | 299 | - | - |
Inn | 232 | 289 | - | - |
Runs | 11953 | 10405 | - | - |
Avg | 52.89 | 40.17 | - | - |
SR | 60.51 | 79.51 | - | - |
HS | 400 | 169 | - | - |
NO | 6 | 30 | - | - |
100s | 34 | 19 | - | - |
50s | 48 | 63 | - | - |
4s | 1559 | 1035 | - | - |
6s | 88 | 133 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 131 | 299 | - | - |
Inn | 4 | 5 | - | - |
Balls | 60 | 49 | - | - |
Runs | 28 | 61 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 4 | - | - |
BBI | 0 / 0 | 5 / 2 | - | - |
BBM | 0 / 0 | 5 / 2 | - | - |
Eco | 2.8 | 7.47 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 15.25 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- ICC World XI
- Marylebone Cricket Club
- Mumbai Champs
- Northern Transvaal
- Southern Rocks
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Lara's wizardry and sheer style though would trump any batsman including the aforementioned troika. Another attribute that set him up as a cut above the rest was his voracious appetite for big, massive scores. Armed with a high backlift, generating that typical Caribbean flourish, Lara was equally efficient against spin and pace. Ask Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Wasim Akram, Glenn McGrath and the rest of their breed.
Lara initially excelled in junior soccer and table tennis but cricket was his burning love. As a 15 year old lad at Fatima college in Port of Spain, Lara amassed as many as 7 three figure scores in a single season of the inter-school competition. Under-19 and first-class cricket followed suit. In only his second first-class encounter, the southpaw held fort for more than 300 minutes, compiling 92 against Trinidad and Tobago's sporting rivals - Barbados - in a sterling effort that defied the likes of Joel Garner and Malcom Marshall.
There was no looking back as Lara, at the age of 20, was appointed as T&T's captain, thus claiming the honour of becoming the youngest ever to lead Trinidad and Tobago. In the absence of Viv Richards, Lara was handed his Test debut the same year against Pakistan in Lahore, making 44 and 6. Right after the Test though he was banished to the domestic circuit and returned to the biggest stage only after the departure of Viv.
Soon, Lara established himself as the West Indies' main man. While the rest of the team was in doldrums during the 1992 World Cup, Lara, who opened the batting, rattled 333 at a breezy rate.
Two years later he produced a monumental feat, notching up 375 versus England at Antigua, which was incidentally bettered by himself at the same venue about a decade later, earning the distinction as the first and only player to register 400 in Tests, an immortal landmark, which stands undimmed by the passage of time. His unconquered 153 in a nerve-wracking 1 wicket triumph over the Aussies in 1999 was also the stuff of legends.
Having cracked 501* for Warwickshire, just weeks after authoring 375, Lara eclipsed Hanif Mohammad's 499 to own the highest first-class score in cricket history. Never since Sir Donald Bradman had a batsman racked up runs for fun. Lara was special, he was an all-time colossus in the making.
The Trinidad ace eventually topped the Test runs charts before the honour was snatched away by Sachin Tendulkar. Lara too tallied 10000+ runs in the ODI format with the pick of his knocks being the 129-ball-169 against a spin loaded Sri Lankan attack, helping West Indies squeeze out a narrow 4 run victory in Sharjah. Among a plethora of records, Lara has etched a century against every Test playing nation.
He was enlisted with three stints of captaincy but did not shine as much as his batting did in each of those opportunities (or curses). It was not Lara's fault, for he was devoid of appropriate resources.
Under his leadership, West Indies suffered the ignominy of their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa before losing to England in the Caribbean. With the failures of his compatriots stretching the list further Lara assumed the role of an one man army. It was a pity that Lara's illustrious career coincided with West Indies hurtling into an abyss. He copped a fair share of criticism during his multiple tenures as skipper but he survived the turbulent period, which would have capsized a less seaworthy vessel.
Ever the fighter, Lara inspired his troops to the ICC champions trophy title victory in 2004 in Old Blighty, which remains the highlight of his captaincy. Lara hung up his wonderfully worn international boots following the 2007 World Cup, where hosts West Indies progressed to the Super Eights round. During the time of Lara's departure, speculations were rife that his run-ins with the authority had swelled to a crescendo but his outstanding contribution to the sport cannot be undermined.
Post retirement, Lara plunged into T20s, signing up for the now-disbanded Indian Cricket League and served as the skipper of Mumbai Champs. Later, his services were hired by Southern Rocks, a Zimbabwe franchise for the 2010-11 Stanbic Bank 20 competition. Fittingly, the Prince of Trinidad, was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2012.
By Deivarayan Muthu
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
No one since Bradman built massive scores as often and as fast as Brian Lara in his pomp, and with such elegance. Even his stance was thrilling - the bat raised high in the air, the weight poised on a bent front knee, the eyes low and level. Then the guillotine would fall, sending the ball flashing to the boundary.
The tenth of 11 children, Lara played for Trinidad's junior football and table tennis sides, but it was cricket that really drew him. In 1990, at 20, he became Trinidad and Tobago's youngest captain, and that year, he also made his Test debut, scoring 44 and 6 against Pakistan.
In the space of two months in 1994, Lara's 375 and 501 not out broke world records for the highest Test and first-class scores, but sudden fame seemed to turn him into a confused and contradictory figure. During an inventive but largely fruitless spell as captain of a fading West Indies team, Lara reiterated his genius by single-handedly defying the 1998-99 Australian tourists with a sequence of 213, 8, 153 not out and 100. For a while, excess weight and hamstring problems hampered his once-lightning footwork, and the torrent of runs became an occasional spurt. But after Garry Sobers suggested a tweak to his flourishing backlift, Lara returned to his best in Sri Lanka in 2001-02, with 688 runs - a record 42% of West Indies' output - in the series, and reclaimed the captaincy the following year.
The task proved as hard the second time round, leading a side where he was far and away the best player and where discipline was a constant worry. He led them to defeat for a second time in South Africa in 2003, and then lost to England in the Caribbean. But then, just when all hope seemed to have deserted West Indies cricket, Lara responded to the prospect of a home series whitewash with an astonishing unbeaten 400 in the final Test against England in Antigua in 2004. In doing so, he became the first man to reclaim the world Test batting record.
He was not captain in Adelaide in November 2005, when he went past Allan Border's tally of 11,174 runs to become Test cricket's most prolific scorer. Then in April 2006, after a protracted dispute between the West Indies board and the players' union (WIPA), he was reinstated - for the third time - as captain. Lara's leadership in the five-match one-day home series against India in 2006 came in for much praise as the tourists were knocked over 4-1, but in the Test series he struggled and his captaincy was erratic - he later revealed that his hands were tied due to peripheral issues related to team selection.
In Pakistan later that year he led by example with the bat but results continued to go against his side and as West Indies struggled both on and off the field, it became increasingly obvious that Lara, who appeared at odds with many of his team-mates, was unable to inspire the side to greater things. The World Cup offered him a chance to bow out on home soil and on a high, but one fifty in seven innings was not enough. West Indies went out with a whimper and Lara quit, one ODI short of 300, amid rumours of bitter disputes with administrators.