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
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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
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I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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To beat Barbados in Barbados, to literally take the Cup off their shelf is an amazing feeling.
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As our national anthem played before the match, I looked up and saw him. I knew I was part of a great occasion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.