Highs and lows are part of a player’s career, and thee West Indies legend was not immune to it. On April 26th 2006 Lara was re-appointed captain for the third time which followed the resignation of Chanderpaul who was captaining the side for thirteen months. However, he lost his captaincy again to Shivnarine Chanderpaul. In March 2005, Lara declined being selected for the West Indian side because of a dispute over sponsorship deal, but returned to the side scoring an emphatic 196. In September 2004, Indies won ICC Champions Trophy under his captaincy. In the year 2000, Brian resigned as captain of the Indies side deciding to take a break from cricket for four months.
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H e scored three hundreds in three consecutive matches of the series and received Man of the Series award. However, he was sacked the same year due to player revolts over pay delays, and was made the captain again in 1999 against Australia. Lara was appointed as captain of the West Indies team in 1998. He has scored nine double test centuries, which is the third highest after Donald Bradman’s 12 and Kumar Sangakkara’s 11. Lara is the only player to register 400 in test cricket. Scoring 501 not out for Warwickshire in first class cricket and 375 not out for Indies in a test match against England. His century was a turning point of the series and West Indies went on to win it 2-1.īrian holds several records of three digit runs. Lara showed his class in January 1993 by scoring 277 against Australia in Sydney. He had already made his ODI debut scoring 11 against Pakistan a month earlier. Lara made his test debut, scoring 44 and 6 against Pakistan. He lead them to victory in the Geddes Grant Shield. In the year 1990, Lara was the youngest captain of Trinidad and Tobago. A year later, he was in Indies Under-19 side. He used to play for Trinidad's junior football and table tennis side, but cricket was his true love.Īt just the age of 14, Brian made 745 runs at 126.6, which got him selected for the Trinidad’s Under-16 team. The 10th child of 11 siblings, Lara was taught cricket at the Harvard Coaching Clinic from the age of six. Breaking records and appetite for a humongous score was Lara’s bread and butter.
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Lara’s style would mesmerize not only common spectators but professional cricket players also.
Brian Charles Lara, a wizard waving his bat on the pitch like a wand, a relentless force of nature and one of the greatest batsmen the modern era has seen.