Brian Lara

Personal information

Full name Brian Charles Lara

Born May 2, 1969 (age 45)

Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago

Nickname Prince

Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Batting style Left-handed

Bowling style Right-arm leg break

Role Batsman

International information

National side

West Indies

Test debut (cap 196) 6 December 1990 v Pakistan

Last Test 27 November 2006 v Pakistan

ODI debut (cap 59) 9 November 1990 v Pakistan

Last ODI 21 April 2007 v England

ODI shirt no. 9

Domestic team information

Years Team

1987–2008 Trinidad and Tobago

1992–1993 Transvaal

1994–1998 Warwickshire

2010 Southern Rocks

Career statistics

Competition Test ODI FC LA

Matches 131 299 261 429

Runs scored 11,953 10,405 22,156 14,602

Batting average 52.88 40.48 51.88 39.67

100s/50s 34/48 19/63 65/88 27/86

Top score 400* 169 501* 169

Balls bowled 60 49 514 130

Wickets – 4 4 5

Bowling average – 15.25 104.00 29.80

5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0

10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a

Best bowling – 2/5 1/1 2/5

Catches/stumpings 164/– 120/– 320/– 177/–

Source: cricinfo.com, 4 February 2012

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM (born 2 May 1969) is a former West Indian international cricket player.[1][2] He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all-time. [3][4][5] 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.[6]

Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004.[7] 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.[8][9] Lara also shares the test record of scoring the highest 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 (George Bailey achieved this in 2013 against England off of the bowling of James Anderson).[10]

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.[11] Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,[12] and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket[13] and in One Day Internationals (ODIs),[14] has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.[15] Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995[16] 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.[17]

Brian Lara was appointed honorary member of the Order of Australia on 27 November 2009.[18] On 14 September 2012 he was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka as a 2012–13 season inductee along with Australians Glenn McGrath and former England women all-rounder Enid Bakewell.[19][20] In 2013, Lara received Honorary Life Membership of the MCC becoming the 31st West Indian to receive the honor.[21]

Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as "The Prince of Port of Spain" or simply "The Prince".[22] He has the dubious distinction of playing in second highest number of test matches (63) in which his team was on losing side, just behind Shivnarine Chanderpaul (68).[23]

Contents  [hide] 

1 Early life

2 Early First-class career

3 International career

4 Retirement

5 2010 return

6 Controversies

7 Off the field

8 Personal life

9 Records

10 Man of the Match awards

10.1 Test Cricket

10.2 One-Day International Cricket

11 ICC Hall of Fame

12 See also

13 Notes and references

14 External links

Early life[edit]

Brian was the 10th of 11 children. His 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, which is located on Moreau Road, Lower Santa Cruz. 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 First-class career[edit]

1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs breaking the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year.[24] He captained the tournament-winning Trinidad and Tobago, who profited from 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 further elevated his reputation.

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.

International career[edit]

In January 1993, Lara scored 277 versus Australia in Sydney. This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, 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.

Lara's results in international matches[25]

  Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied No result

Test[26] 131 32 63 36 0 –

ODI[27] 299 139 144 – 3 13

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.

Brian Lara batting for the West Indies against India at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 2002.

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. This would be later broken by Sachin Tendulkar of India on 17 October 2008 whilst playing against Australia at Mohali in the 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when 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 three 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.

The Wisden 100 rates Lara's 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown in 1998–99 as the second best innings ever after Sir Donald Bradman's 270 against England in Melbourne in 1936–37.

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. That same year Lara amassed 688 runs in the three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three centuries, and one fifty – including the 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 bowled to.[28]

Lara was reappointed as captain against the touring Australians in 2003, and struck 110 in his first Test match back in charge, showing a return to stellar performance. 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.[29] 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.

Lara during his lap of honour in his final international match, 2007 Cricket World Cup.

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.[30] 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.[31] A few days later he announced that he would in fact be retiring from all international cricket after the tournament.[32]

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 after a mix up with Marlon Samuels; England won the game by 1 wicket. Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.[33]

Retirement[edit]

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.[34] He was run out after a bad mixup with Marlon Samuels for 18, as England went on to win the match by one wicket.[35]

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 cheer from the crowd,[36] after which he went out and took his 'lap of honour' where he met and shook hands with many of the fans. Lara stated 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.[37] He is the former captain of the Mumbai Champs. He 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).

Lara suffered a fractured arm against the Leeward Islands in St Maarten on 19 January, which kept him out of the ICL season. He nevertheless affirmed his commitment to returning to Twenty20 cricket,[38] and on 27 June 2010 appeared for the Marylebone Cricket Club match against a touring Pakistan team, scoring 37 from 32 balls.[39]

In 2013, Lara became involved with the Bangladesh Premier League team Chittagong Kings as their ambassador.

On the occasion of bicentennial anniversary of Lord's ground he played for the team of MCC, under the leadership of Sachin Tendulkar against the Rest of World XI in a 50 over's game.

2010 return[edit]

After negotiations between Surrey and Lara for the 2010 Friends Provident t20 failed to come to anything,[40] Lara declared that he still wanted to sign a contract to play Twenty20 cricket.[41] Late in the year he joined Southern Rocks, a Zimbabwean side, to compete in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series.[42] On his debut for the Rocks, and his first-ever Twenty20 match,[43] he scored a half-century, top-scoring for the Rocks with 65.[44] He added 34 runs in his next two innings, but then left the competition, citing "commitments elsewhere".[45]

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL),[46] and despite not having played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $400,000 ahead of the IPL players' auction in early January 2011;[47][48] however, no franchise bought him.

In July 2014, he played for the MCC side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.[49]

Controversies[edit]

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.[50]

Off the field[edit]

Barack Obama and Lara during the US President's tour of Trinidad and Tobago in 2009. Obama had asked to meet Lara, whom he described as the "Michael Jordan of cricket".[51]

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.[52] 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.[52]

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities 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.

Brian Lara is also a golf player. He has participated in golfing tournaments throughout the caribbean region and has won titles.[53] In September 2009, Lara was inducted as an honorary lifetime member of the Royal St. Kitts Golf Club.[54] He wrote an Autobiography Beating the Field: My Own Story co-written with Brian Scovell.

Personal life[edit]

Lara has dated former Durham County Cricket Club receptionist and British lingerie model Lynnsey Ward.[55] During the West Indies tour to Australia in late 2000, Lara was accompanied by Ward.

Lara is the father of two girls one called Sydney (born 1996) whom he fathered with Trinidadian journalist and model Leasel Rovedas. Sydney was 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 second daughter Tyla was also with Leasel Rovedas she was born in 2010.

His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.[56]

In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to West Indian and Australian cricket.[57]

Records[edit]

See also: List of international cricket centuries by Brian Lara

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,[58] 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[59] until surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar on 17 October 2008.

He was the fastest batsman to score 10,000 (with Sachin Tendulkar) and 11,000 Test runs, in terms of number of innings.[60]

He scored 34 centuries; joint-fifth along with Sunil Gavaskar, on the all-time list behind Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), Ricky Ponting (41) and Rahul Dravid (36).[61]

He has the most centuries for a West Indian[62]

Nine of his centuries are double centuries (surpassed only by Kumar Sangakkara and Donald Bradman)[62]

Two of them are triple-centuries (matched by Australia's Donald Bradman,[62] India's Virender Sehwag, and West Indies' Chris Gayle).

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 the sixth batsman to score a century in one session, doing so against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.[63]

Lara has scored an 20% of his team runs,[64] 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.[65]

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.[66]

He has scored the most runs (351) on a losing side in a Test.

He scored 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.[67]

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.[68] 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.[69]

With 164 catches, He is the eighth all-time catch-taker of non-wicketkeepers, behind Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting,Mark Waugh, Stephen Fleming and Graeme Smith.[70]

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.[71]

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).[72] His 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.

Man of the Match awards[edit]

Test Cricket[edit]

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 West Indies won by an innings and 44 runs 1994

[3] 375 England St John's, Antigua Antigua Recreation Ground Match Drawn 1994

[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 West Indies won by 10 wickets 1999

[7] 8/153* Australia Bridgetown, Barbados Kensington Oval West Indies won by 1 wicket 1999

[8] 221/130 Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sport Club Ground Sri Lanka 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 West Indies 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 Australia won by 7 wickets 2005

One-Day International Cricket[edit]

Man of the Match Awards – Brian Lara

Runs Against City/Country Venue Result Year

[1] 54 Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan National Stadium West Indies won by 24 runs 1991

[2] 69 Australia Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Cricket Ground West Indies won by 12 runs 1992

[3] 88 Pakistan Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground West Indies won by 10 wickets 1992

[4] 72 Zimbabwe Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Cricket Ground West Indies won by 75 runs 1992

[5] 86 South Africa Port of Spain, Trinidad Queens Park Oval West Indies won by 10 wickets 1992

[6] 128 Pakistan Durban, South Africa Kingsmead West Indies won by 124 runs 1993

[7] 111* South Africa Bloemfontein, South Africa Springbok Park West Indies won by 9 wickets 1993

[8] 114 Pakistan Kingston, Jamaica Sabina Park West Indies won by 4 wickets 1993

[9] 95* Pakistan Port of Spain, Trinidad Queens Park Oval West Indies won by 5 wickets 1993

[10] 153 Pakistan Sharjah, UAE Sharjah C.A. Stadium West Indies won by 6 wickets 1993

[11] 82 Sri Lanka Kolkata, India Eden Gardens West Indies won by 7 wickets 1993

[12] 55* New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand Eden Park West Indies won by 25 runs 1995

[13] 72 New Zealand Wellington, New Zealand Basin Reserve West Indies won by 41 runs 1995

[14] 139 Australia Port of Spain, Trinidad Queens Park Oval West Indies won by 133 runs 1995

[15] 169 Sri Lanka Sharjah, UAE Sharjah C. A. Stadium West Indies won by 4 runs 1995

[16] 111 South Africa Karachi, Pakistan National Stadium West Indies won by 19 runs 1996

[17] 146* New Zealand Port of Spain, Trinidad Queens Park Oval West Indies won by 7 wickets 1996

[18] 103* Pakistan Perth, Australia W.A.C.A Grounds West Indies won by 5 wickets 1997

[19] 90 Australia Perth, Australia W.A.C.A Grounds West Indies won by 4 wickets 1997

[20] 88 Pakistan Sharjah, UAE Sharjah C.A. Stadium West Indies won by 43 runs 1997

[21] 51 England Kingstown, Saint Vincent Arnos Vale Ground West Indies won by 4 wickets 1998

[22] 60 India Singapore Kallang Ground West Indies won by 42 runs 1999

[23] 117 Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangabandhu National Stadium West Indies won by 109 runs 1999

[24] 116* Australia Sydney, Australia Sydney Cricket Ground Australia won by 28 runs 2001

[25] 83* Zimbabwe Perth, Australia W.A.C.A Grounds West Indies won by 44 runs 2001

[26] 59* New Zealand Gros Islet, Saint Lucia Beausejour Stadium West Indies won by 7 wickets 2002

[27] 103* Kenya Colombo, Sri Lanka Sinhalese Sports Club Ground West Indies won by 29 runs 2002

[28] 116 South Africa Cape Town, South Africa Newlands West Indies won by 3 runs 2003

[29] 80 Australia Port of Spain, Trinidad Queens Park Oval West Indies won by 39 runs 2003

[30] 156 Pakistan Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Oval West Indies won by 58 runs 2005

ICC Hall of Fame[edit]

Lara was inducted into ICC Hall of Fame in January 2012.[20]

See also[edit]

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Brian Lara Cricket series of video games

Brian Lara Stadium

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