Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM (born 2 May 1969, in Santa
Cruz
, Trinidad and Tobago
) is a former West Indian cricketer, who is
widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
He topped the
Test batting
rankings on several occasions and
holds several cricketing records.
He holds 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. He also holds the record for the highest
individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out
against England
at Antigua
in
2004. Remarkably, he is the only batsman to have ever scored
a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century
and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a
senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most
number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28
runs off an over by
Robin Peterson of
South Africa in 2003.
Lara's
match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in
Bridgetown
, Barbados
in 1999 has
been rated by Wisden as the second best
batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to
the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald
Bradman in The Ashes test match of
1937. Muttiah
Muralitharan, rated as the greatest
Test match bowler ever by
Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack,13/02> and the highest wicket-taker in both
Test cricket and in
One Day Internationals (ODIs), has
hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the
world. Lara was awarded the
Wisden Leading Cricketer
in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only
three cricketers to receive the prestigious
BBC Overseas Sports
Personality of the Year, the other two being
Sir Garfield Sobers and
Shane Warne. Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed
as The Prince of Trinidad or simply The Prince. On the 27th
November 2009 he was appointed an honorary member of the
Order of Australia.
Early life
Lara was the 10th of 11 children, Lara's father Bunty and one of
his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard
Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on
Sundays. As a result, Lara had a very early education in correct
batting technique. Lara's first school was St. Joseph's Roman
Catholic primary. He then went to San Juan secondary, but played no
cricket there. A year later, at fourteen years old, he moved on to
Fatima College where he started his
development as a promising young player under cricket coach Mr.
Harry Ramdass. Aged 14, he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys'
league, with an average of 126.16 per innings, which earned him
selection for the Trinidad national under-16 team. When he was 15
years old, he played in his first West Indian under 19 youth
tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in
Under-19 cricket.
Lara moved
in with his future fellow Trinidadian cricketer Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port of Spain
(a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz).
Michael's father
Joey Carew worked with
him on his cricketing and personal career development. Michael got
Lara his first job at
Angostura
Ltd. in the marketing department. Lara played in Trinidad and
Tobago junior soccer and table tennis sides but Lara believed that
cricket was his path to success, saying that he wanted to emulate
his idols
Gordon Greenidge,
Viv Richards and
Roy Fredericks.
Early cricket career
1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies
Youth Championships he scored 498 runs beating the record of 480 by
Carl Hooper set the previous year. He
captained the Trinidad and Tobago team at this tournament whom
eventually won the tournament due to a match winning 116 from
Lara.
In January 1988, Lara made his first-class debut for
Trinidad and Tobago in the
Red Stripe Cup against
Leeward Islands. In his second
first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing
Joel Garner and
Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies
teams. Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in
Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West
Indies reached the semi-finals. Later that year, his innings of 182
as captain of the West Indies under 23 XI against the touring
Indian team elevated his reputation even further.
His first selection for the full West Indies team followed in due
course, but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father
and Lara withdrew from the team. In 1989, he captained a West
Indies B Team in Zimbabwe and scored 145.
In 1990, at the age of 20, Lara became Trinidad and Tobago's
youngest ever captain, leading them that season to victory in the
one-day Geddes Grant Shield. It was also in 1990 that he made his
belated Test debut for West Indies against
Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5. He had
made his ODI debut a month earlier against Pakistan, scoring 11. In
the
1992 World Cup Lara did
well averaging 47.57 with a highest score of 88 retired hurt.
In January 1993, Lara scored 277 versus Australia in Sydney, this
was his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, this innings was the
turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests
to win the series 2-1.Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney
after scoring 277 at SCG.
He was greatly influenced by Trinidadian Lester Armogan. Lara was
devastated with "Uncle Les's" death, but has been able to rebound.
He knows "Uncle Les" is watching.
Career
Lara holds several world records for high scoring. He has the
highest individual score in both
first-class cricket (501
not out for
Warwickshire against
Durham in 1994) and Test
cricket (400 not out for the West Indies against
England in 2004). Lara amassed his
world record 501 in 474 minutes off only 427 balls. He hit 308 in
boundaries (10 sixes and 62 fours). His partners were
Roger Twose (115 partnership - 2nd wicket),
Trevor Penney (314 - 3rd),
Paul Smith (51 - 4th) and
Keith Piper (322 unbroken - 5th). Earlier in
that season Lara scored six centuries in seven innings while
playing for Warwickshire.
He is the only man to have reclaimed the Test record score, having
scored 375 against England in 1994, a record that stood until
Matthew Hayden's 380 against
Zimbabwe in 2003. His 400 not out
also made him the second player after
Donald Bradman to score two Test
triple-centuries, and the second after
Bill Ponsford to score two first-class
quadruple-centuries. He has scored nine double centuries in Test
cricket, second only to Bradman's twelve. In 1995 Lara in the test
match away series against England, scored 3 hundreds in Three
consecutive Matches which earned him the Man of the Series award.
The Test Series was eventually drawn 2-2. He also held the record
for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after
overtaking
Allan Border in an innings
of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.
However
this was broken by Sachin Tendulkar
of India
on October
17, 2008 whilst playing against Australia at Mohali in the 2nd Test
of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy
2008. Hence, Tendulkar now holds the new world record of
most runs in a Test Career.
Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999 in this period
West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of
South Africa. Following
this they played Australia in a four Test series which was drawn
2-2, with Lara scoring 546 runs including two centuries and one
double hundred. In the second Test at Kingston he scored 213 while
in the third Test he scored 153* in the second innings as West
Indies chased down 311 with one wicket left. He won the Man of the
Match award for both matches and was also named Man of the
Series.
In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia
with an average of 46.50, the highest average by a West Indian in
that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116
against Australia. Also in that year Lara amassed 688 runs in the
three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three
centuries and one fifty including a double century and a century in
the first and second innings of the 3rd Test Match at the Sinhalese
Sports Ground, equating to 42% of the team's runs in that series.
These extraordinary performances led Muttiah Muralitharan to state
that Lara was the most dangerous batsman he had ever faced.
Lara was reappointed as captain against the touring
Australians in 2003, and struck 110
in his first Test match back in charge, showing signs of him
returning to his best. Later that season under his captaincy West
Indies won the two match Test series against Sri Lanka 1-0 with
Lara making a double century in the First Test. In September 2004,
West Indies won the ICC Champions Trophy in England under his
captaincy.
In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team
because of a dispute over his personal
Cable & Wireless
sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main
sponsor,
Digicel. Six other players were
involved in this dispute, including stars
Chris Gayle,
Ramnaresh Sarwan and
Dwayne Bravo. Lara said he declined selection
in a stand of solidarity, when these players were dropped because
of their sponsorship deals. The issue was resolved after the first
Test of the series against the touring
South African team.
Lara returned to the team for the second Test (and scored a huge
first innings score of 196), but in the process lost his captaincy
indefinitely to the newly-appointed
Shivnarine Chanderpaul. In the next
Test, against the same opponents, he scored a 176 in the first
innings.
After a one day series against South Africa,
he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in
the first Test at Kensington
Oval
, Bridgetown, Barbados which the
West Indies eventually won.
On 26 April 2006 Lara was reappointed the captain of the West
Indies cricket team for the third time. This followed the
resignation of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who had been captain for
thirteen months - in which the West Indies won just one of the 14
Test matches they had competed. In May 2006, Lara led the West
Indies to successful One-Day series victories against Zimbabwe and
India. Lara's team played Australia in the finals of the DLF Cup
and the ICC Champions Trophy where they finished runners up in both
finals.
On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies
to pass 10,000 One Day International runs. along with
Sachin Tendulkar one of only two players,
at the time, to do so in both forms of the game. On 10 April 2007
Lara confirmed his retirement from one day cricket post the
2007 Cricket World Cup. A few
days later he announced that he would in fact be retiring from all
international cricket after the tournament.
Lara played his final international game on 21 April 2007 in a
dead rubber World Cup game against
England. He was run out for 18; England won the game. Before the
end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the
greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.
Retirement
Lara during his lap of honour, 2007
CWC.
On 19 April 2007 Lara announced his retirement from all forms of
international cricket, indicating that the West Indies vs England
match on 21 April 2007 would be his last international appearance.
He was run out after a bad mixup with
Marlon Samuels for 18, as England went on to
win the match by one wicket.
He announced before the 2007 Cricket World Cup that this would be
his last appearance in one day internationals. After his last
match, in the post-game presentation interview, he asked the fans,
"Did I entertain?", to which he received a resounding "Yes!" from
the West Indies fans, after which he went out and took his 'lap of
honor' where he met and shook hands with many of the fans. This
marked the last time Lara would play actively in the game.
It should be noted that while Lara has gone on record as saying
that this would be his last appearance in international cricket, he
has also indicated his interest in retaining some involvement in
the sport.
On 23 July 2007 Lara agreed to sign for the
Indian Cricket League.He is currently
the captain of the
Mumbai
Champs.
Brian Lara volunteered to play for his home team Trinidad during
the start of 2008 domestic season. He had not played for Trinidad
for the last two years. He made his comeback a memorable one with a
match winning hundred over Guyana, followed by a dismissive
undefeated half-century in the second innings, scored at over two
runs per ball.
In the third round game (Trinidad got a bye in the second round),
Brian Lara suffered a fractured arm against the Leeward Islands in
St Maarten on Jan 19th.
Brian Lara is not playing in the current season of ICL due to a
broken arm. Though it was expected that the arm would heal in 6
weeks, it did not and he is still nursing the injury. Recently BCCI
has granted amnesty to ICL players, so Brian Lara may start playing
for one of IPL leagues, which has greater following than ICL.
Controversies
On the fourth day of the first test match at Antigua Recreation
Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies,
2006,
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's
flick off
Dave Mohammed to the
midwicket region was caught by
Daren
Ganga. As the batsman started to walk back, captain
Rahul Dravid declared the innings when
confusion started as the umpires were not certain if the fielder
stepped on the ropes and Dhoni stayed for the umpire's verdict.
While the replays were inconclusive, the captain of the West Indies
side, Brian Lara wanted Dhoni to walk-off based on the fielder's
assertion of the catch. The impasse continued for more than 15
minutes. Ultimately, Dhoni walked-off and Dravid's declaration was
effected but the game was delayed. Lara was called by the match
referee for explanation of his actions but was not fined.
Off the field
Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation,
which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that
aims to address health and social care issues. He is an Ambassador
for Sport of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and travels on a
diplomatic passport to promote his country throughout the world.
Brian Lara received an honorary doctorate from the University of
Sheffield on Wednesday 10 January 2007. The ceremony took place at
the Trinidad Hilton, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, playing for
the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrites and ex pros.
Lara was also a talented football player in his youth and often
played with his close friends
Dwight
Yorke,
Shaka Hislop and
Russell Latapy while growing up together in
Trinidad. Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for
Trinidad and
Tobago at the
2006 FIFA World
Cup.
Personal life
Lara has dated British model
Lindsey
Ward. Lara is the father of a girl called Sydney whom he
fathered with Trinidadian
journalist and
model
Leasel Rovedas.
Sydney is so named as
a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket
Ground
, where Lara scored his first Test century- the
highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992-93 season. His father died
in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.
Lara has close ties with Trinidadian business mogul Wayne Armogan,
who is the son of late Trinidadian Lester Armogan.
In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the
Order of Australia (AM) for services to
West Indian and Australian cricket.
Statistics
Highlights
Brian Lara's career performance graph.
- Lara
struck 277 runs against Australia in Sydney, his maiden Test century, the fourth highest
maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in
all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever
recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.
- He became the first man to score seven centuries in
eight first-class
innings, the first being the record 375 against England and the last being the record
501 not out against Durham.
- After Matthew Hayden had eclipsed
his Test record for highest individual score 375
by five runs in 2003, he reclaimed the record
scoring 400 not out in 2004 against England. With these innings he
became the second player to score two Test triple centuries, the
second player to score two career quadruple centuries, the only
player to achieve both these milestones, and regained the
distinction of being the holder of both the record first-class
individual innings and the record Test individual innings. He is
the only player to break the world record twice.
- In the same innings, he became the second batsman to score 1000
Test runs in five different years, four days after Matthew Hayden
first set the record.
- He was the all-time leading run scorer in Test
cricket, a record he attained on 26 November 2005 until
surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar on 17
October 2008.
- He was the fastest batsmen to score 10,000 (with Sachin Tendulkar) and 11,000 Test runs, in
terms of number of innings.
- He scored 34 centuries; joint-third along with Sunil Gavaskar, on the all-time list behind
Sachin Tendulkar ( ) and Ricky Ponting (38).
- He has the most centuries for a West
Indian
- Nine of his centuries are double centuries (surpassed only by
Donald Bradman)
- Two of them are triple-centuries (matched by Bradman and
India's Virender Sehwag).
- He has scored centuries against all Test-playing
nations. He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his
first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington
Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.
- He became only the sixth batsman to score a century in one
session, doing so against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.
- Lara has scored an 20% of his team runs, a
feat surpassed only by Bradman (23%) and George Headley (21%). Lara scored 688 runs
(42% of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests,
and the second highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test
series) in the 2001-02 tour of Sri Lanka.
- He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test
in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times
in Test cricket history.
- The first was the unenviable one of becoming the batsman to
score the most runs (351) on a losing side in a Test.
- The second record was that he became the batsman to score the
largest proportion (53.83 per cent) of his team's runs in a Test
(221 out of 390 and 130 out of 262). He eclipsed the long-standing
record of 51.88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair (106
out of 177 and 4 out of 35) against England at Cape Town in an 1898
- 1899 series.
- Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a
single over (28 runs against
left-arm spinner RJ Peterson of South Africa) in Test cricket.
He also
scored 26 runs in a single over off the bowling of Danish Kaneria
at Multan
Cricket Stadium
on 21 November 2006.
- He scored the ninth fastest Test century, doing so off 77 balls
against Pakistan on 21
November 2006.
- With 164 catches, He is the fourth all-time catch-taker of
non-Wicketkeepers, behind Rahul Dravid,
Mark Waugh and Stephen Fleming.
- In 1994, he was awarded the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award. In
1995, he was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the
Year.
- Comfortably averaging over 50 per innings (the benchmark
for batting greatness in Test cricket), Lara has been ranked the
number one batsman in Test cricket in the PricewaterhouseCoopers
Cricket Ratings several times.
- Lara has played some of his best innings in recent years.
Wisden published a top
100 list in July 2001, a distillation of the best performances
from 1,552 Tests, 54,494 innings and 29,730 bowling performances.
Three innings by Lara were placed in the top 15 (the most for any
batsman in that range). His heroic 153 not out in Bridgetown,
Barbados
, during West Indies' 2-2 home series draw against
Australia in *1998-1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings
ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test
of the 1936–1937 series at Melbourne
. On 13 October 2003, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ratings team published a list of top innings since 1990 under their
own methodology. Lara's 213 against Australia in Kingston,
Jamaica
in 1999 came out to be the top innings. His
375 was placed 8th and his three other innings, including the 153
not out, were not far behind.
- Lara holds the third fastest century in ODIs, 45 balls against
Bangladesh in 1999.
- He is one of six batsmen to make a century before lunch.
Test Centuries
The following tables illustrate a summary of the Test and ODI
centuries scored by Brian Lara.
- In the column Runs, *
indicates being not out.
- The column title Match refers to the
Match Number of his career.
| Test Centuries of Brian Lara |
|
Runs |
Match |
Against |
City/Country |
Venue |
Year |
Result |
| [1] |
277 |
5 |
Australia |
Sydney , Australia |
Sydney Cricket Ground |
1993 |
Drawn |
| [2] |
167 |
13 |
England |
Georgetown , Guyana |
Bourda |
1993 |
Won |
| [3] |
375 |
16 |
England |
St John's , Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
1994 |
Drawn |
| [4] |
147 |
21 |
New Zealand |
Wellington , New
Zealand |
Basin Reserve |
1995 |
Won |
| [5] |
145 |
29 |
England |
Manchester , England |
Old Trafford |
1995 |
Lost |
| [6] |
152 |
30 |
England |
Nottingham , England |
Trent Bridge |
1995 |
Drawn |
| [7] |
179 |
31 |
England |
London ,
England |
Kennington Oval |
1995 |
Drawn |
| [8] |
132 |
38 |
Australia |
Perth , Australia |
W.A.C.A. Ground |
1997 |
Won |
| [9] |
103 |
42 |
India |
St John's, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
1997 |
Drawn |
| [10] |
115 |
45 |
Sri
Lanka |
Kingstown , Saint Vincent |
Arnos Vale Ground |
1997 |
Drawn |
| [11] |
213 |
61 |
Australia |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
1999 |
Won |
| [12] |
153* |
62 |
Australia |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
1999 |
Won |
| [13] |
100 |
63 |
Australia |
St John's, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
1999 |
Lost |
| [14] |
112 |
68 |
England |
Manchester, England |
Old Trafford |
2000 |
Drawn |
| [15] |
182 |
73 |
Australia |
Adelaide , Australia |
Adelaide Oval |
2000 |
Lost |
| [16] |
178 |
81 |
Sri Lanka |
Galle , Sri
Lanka |
Galle Stadium |
2001 |
Lost |
| [17] |
221 |
83 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo , Sri Lanka |
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground |
2001 |
Lost |
| [18] |
130 |
83 |
Sri Lanka |
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground |
2001 |
Lost |
| [19] |
110 |
91 |
Australia |
Georgetown, Guyana |
Bourda |
2003 |
Lost |
| [20] |
122 |
92 |
Australia |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queen’s Park Oval |
2003 |
Lost |
| [21] |
209 |
95 |
Sri Lanka |
Gros
Islet , Saint
Lucia |
Beausejour Stadium |
2003 |
Drawn |
| [22] |
191 |
98 |
Zimbabwe |
Bulawayo , Zimbabwe |
Queen’s Sport Club |
2003 |
Won |
| [23] |
202 |
99 |
South Africa |
Johannesburg , South
Africa |
New Wanderers Stadium |
2003 |
Lost |
| [24] |
115 |
101 |
South Africa |
Cape
Town , South Africa |
Newlands |
2004 |
Drawn |
| [25] |
400* |
106 |
England |
St John's, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
2004 |
Drawn |
| [26] |
120 |
108 |
Bangladesh |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
2004 |
Won |
| [27] |
196 |
113 |
South Africa |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queen’s Park Oval |
2005 |
Lost |
| [28] |
176 |
114 |
South Africa |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
2005 |
Lost |
| [29] |
130 |
116 |
Pakistan |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
2005 |
Won |
| [30] |
153 |
117 |
Pakistan |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
2005 |
Lost |
| [31] |
226 |
121 |
Australia |
Adelaide, Australia |
Adelaide Oval |
2005 |
Lost |
| [32] |
120 |
126 |
India |
Gros Islet, Saint Lucia |
Beausejour Stadium |
2006 |
Drawn |
| [33] |
122 |
129 |
Pakistan |
Lahore ,
Pakistan |
Gadaffi Stadium |
2006 |
Lost |
| [34] |
216 |
130 |
Pakistan |
Multan,
Pakistan |
Multan Cricket Stadium |
2006 |
Drawn |
|
One-Day International Centuries
| ODI Centuries of Brian Lara |
|
Runs |
Match |
Against |
City/Country |
Venue |
Year |
| [1] |
128 |
41 |
Pakistan |
Durban , South Africa |
Kingsmead |
1993 |
| [2] |
111* |
42 |
South Africa |
Bloemfontein , South Africa |
Springbok Park |
1993 |
| [3] |
114 |
45 |
Pakistan |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
1993 |
| [4] |
153 |
54 |
Pakistan |
Sharjah , UAE |
Sharjah C.A. Stadium |
1993 |
| [5] |
139 |
83 |
Australia |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queen’s Park Oval |
1995 |
| [6] |
169 |
90 |
Sri
Lanka |
Sharjah, UAE |
Sharjah C.A. Stadium |
1995 |
| [7] |
111 |
96 |
South Africa |
Karachi , Pakistan |
National Stadium |
1996 |
| [8] |
146* |
100 |
New Zealand |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queen’s Park Oval |
1996 |
| [9] |
104 |
102 |
New Zealand |
Kingstown, Saint Vincent |
Arnos Vale Ground |
1996 |
| [10] |
102 |
108 |
Australia |
Brisbane , Australia |
Brisbane Cricket Ground |
1997 |
| [11] |
103* |
109 |
Pakistan |
Perth, Australia |
W.A.C.A Ground |
1997 |
| [12] |
110 |
125 |
England |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
1998 |
| [13] |
117 |
157 |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka ,
Bangladesh |
Bangabandhu National Stadium |
1999 |
| [14] |
116* |
176 |
Australia |
Sydney,
Australia |
Sydney Cricket Ground |
2001 |
| [15] |
111 |
202 |
Kenya |
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground |
2002 |
| [16] |
116 |
203 |
South Africa |
Cape
Town, South Africa |
Newlands |
2003 |
| [17] |
116 |
217 |
Sri Lanka |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
2003 |
| [18] |
113 |
219 |
Zimbabwe |
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
Queens Sports Club |
2003 |
| [19] |
156 |
250 |
Pakistan |
Adelaide, Australia |
Adelaide Oval |
2005 |
|
Man of the Match Awards
Test Cricket
| Man of the Match Awards – Brian Lara |
|
Runs |
Against |
City/Country |
Venue |
Result |
Year |
| [1] |
277 |
Australia |
Sydney,
Australia |
Sydney Cricket Ground |
Match Drawn |
1993 |
| [2] |
167 |
England |
Georgetown, Guyana |
Bourda |
 won by an innings and 44 runs |
1993 |
| [3] |
375 |
England |
St John's, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
Match Drawn |
1993 |
| [4] |
179 |
England |
London,
England |
Kennington Oval |
Match Drawn |
1995 |
| [5] |
104 |
India |
St John’s, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
Match Drawn |
1997 |
| [6] |
213 |
Australia |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
won by 10 wickets |
1999 |
| [7] |
8/153* |
Australia |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
Kensington Oval |
won by 1 wicket |
1999 |
| [8] |
221/130 |
Sri
Lanka |
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Sinhalese Sport Club Ground |
 won by 10 wickets |
2001 |
| [9] |
209 |
Sri Lanka |
Gros
Islet, Saint
Lucia |
Beausejour Stadium |
Match Drawn |
2003 |
| [10] |
191/1 |
Zimbabwe |
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
Queens Sports Club |
won by 128 runs |
2003 |
| [11] |
400* |
England |
St John’s, Antigua |
Antigua Recreation Ground |
Match Drawn |
2004 |
| [12] |
226/17 |
Australia |
Adelaide, Australia |
Adelaide Oval |
 won by 7 wickets |
2005 |
|
One-Day International Cricket
| Man of the Match Awards – Brian Lara |
|
Runs |
Against |
City/Country |
Venue |
Result |
Year |
| [1] |
54 |
Pakistan |
Karachi, Pakistan |
National Stadium |
won by 24 runs |
1991 |
| [2] |
69 |
Australia |
Brisbane, Australia |
Brisbane Cricket Ground |
won by 12 runs |
1992 |
| [3] |
88 |
Pakistan |
Melbourne , Australia |
Melbourne Cricket Ground |
won by 10 wickets |
1992 |
| [4] |
72 |
Zimbabwe |
Brisbane, Australia |
Brisbane Cricket Ground |
won by 75 runs |
1992 |
| [5] |
86 |
South Africa |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queens Park Oval |
won by 10 wickets |
1992 |
| [6] |
128 |
Pakistan |
Durban, South
Africa |
Kingsmead |
won by 124 runs |
1993 |
| [7] |
111* |
South Africa |
Bloemfontein, South Africa |
Springbok Park |
won by 9 wickets |
1993 |
| [8] |
114 |
Pakistan |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Sabina Park |
won by 4 wickets |
1993 |
| [9] |
95* |
Pakistan |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queens Park Oval |
won by 5 wickets |
1993 |
| [10] |
153 |
Pakistan |
Sharjah, UAE |
Sharjah C.A. Stadium |
won by 6 wickets |
1993 |
| [11] |
82 |
Sri
Lanka |
Kolkata , India |
Eden Gardens |
won by 7 wickets |
1993 |
| [12] |
55* |
New Zealand |
Auckland , New Zealand |
Eden Park |
won by 25 runs |
1995 |
| [13] |
72 |
New Zealand |
Wellington, New Zealand |
Basin Reserve |
won by 41 runs |
1995 |
| [14] |
139 |
Australia |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queens Park Oval |
won by 133 runs |
1995 |
| [15] |
169 |
Sri Lanka |
Sharjah, UAE |
Sharjah C. A. Stadium |
won by 4 runs |
1995 |
| [16] |
111 |
South Africa |
Karachi, Pakistan |
National Stadium |
won by 19 runs |
1996 |
| [17] |
146* |
New Zealand |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queens Park Oval |
won by 7 wickets |
1996 |
| [18] |
103* |
Pakistan |
Perth, Australia |
W.A.C.A Grounds |
won by 5 wickets |
1997 |
| [19] |
90 |
Australia |
Perth, Australia |
W.A.C.A Grounds |
won by 4 wickets |
1997 |
| [20] |
88 |
Pakistan |
Sharjah, UAE |
Sharjah C.A. Stadium |
won by 43 runs |
1997 |
| [21] |
51 |
England |
Kingstown, Saint Vincent |
Arnos Vale Ground |
won by 4 wickets |
1998 |
| [22] |
60 |
India |
Singapore |
Kallang Ground |
won by 42 runs |
1999 |
| [23] |
117 |
Bangladesh |
Dhaka,
Bangladesh |
Bangabandhu National Stadium |
won by 109 runs |
1999 |
| [24] |
116* |
Australia |
Sydney,
Australia |
Sydney Cricket Ground |
won by 28 runs |
2001 |
| [25] |
83* |
Zimbabwe |
Perth, Australia |
W.A.C.A Grounds |
won by 44 runs |
2001 |
| [26] |
59* |
New Zealand |
Gros Islet, Saint
Lucia |
Beausejour Stadium |
won by 7 wickets |
2002 |
| [27] |
103* |
Kenya |
Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground |
won by 29 runs |
2002 |
| [28] |
116 |
South Africa |
Cape
Town, South Africa |
Newlands |
won by 3 runs |
2003 |
| [29] |
80 |
Australia |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
Queens Park Oval |
won by 39 runs |
2003 |
| [30] |
156 |
Pakistan |
Adelaide, Australia |
Adelaide Oval |
won by 58 runs |
2005 |
|
See also
Notes and references
- Cricinfo, Highest Test Wicket-takers
- Cricinfo, Highest ODI Wicket-takers
- The Coming Foretold The Independent
retrieved 30 July 2007
- Profiles - IslandEvents.com - Profile: Brian Charles Lara
- Mar 1, 2007
- Murali: 'Lara's still No. 1'
- 'I'm ready to play if best team is selected' -
Lara
- Lara confirms one-day retirement
BBC News retrieved 30
July 2007
- Legend Lara to end Windies career
BBC News retrieved 30
July 2007
- McGrath rates Lara just ahead of
Tendulkar retrieved 4 December 2007
- Lara turns his back on cricket
retrieved on 29 April 2007
- West Indies v England BBC News retrieved 29 July
2007
- Lara signs up for new Indian league
- Lara did not cross the line
- West Indies cricketer to receive honorary
degree from UK University of Sheffield
retrieved 30 July 2007 Brian Charles Lara, will be one of four
persons to receive the highest award of the Caribbean Community
(Caricom) in July.
- Cricinfo - Lee's jingle, Pup's Bingle
- Highest Maiden Tons Stats from CricInfo,
retrieved 30 July 2007
- Most Test Runs Stats from CricInfo retrieved 30
July 2007
- Fastest Test Runs Stats from CricInfo retrieved
30 July 2007
- Most Test hundreds in a career
- Leading Test Batsmen Stats from CricInfo
retrieved 30 July 2007
- 100 Before Lunch Stats from CricInfo retrieved
30 July 2007
- The Lara story in numbers CricInfo
retrieved 30 July 2007
- Highest Aggregate runs in series Stats from
CricInfo retrieved 30 July 2007
- 100s in each innings Stats from Cric Info
retrieved 30 July 2007
-
http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_daily_features?id=56541818
- Most Runs from One Over Stats from CricInfo
retrieved 30 July 2007
- Fastest test landmarks Stats from CricInfo
retrieved 30 July 2007
- Test Career catches Stats from CricInfo retrieved 29
March 2008
- Cricinfo - Records - Test matches - Hundred runs before
lunch, retrieved 2009-05-18.
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