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Brian Lara
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
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CITATION FOR THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC) 2008
English speaking Caribbean communities have made their greatest single cultural investment in the cricket enterprise. Citizens have come to measure the extent of community detachment from the oppressive grip of the colonial scaffold in terms of the competitive excellence of the region’s international team. Since 1886, when the first generation of cricketers were assembled and sent overseas as the Region’s team, this investment has yielded good results and players have brought to the Caribbean considerable honor, dignity and respect.
When the 21st century opened its door, Brian Charles Lara entered as the universally recognized genius performer of Caribbean and world cricket. His display of brilliance signaled the determination of Caribbean people to approach the new time with confidence, poise and cultural assertiveness. CLR James, the late Caribbean doyen of world cricket writers, offered us a way of viewing the young man’s achievements and legacy when he stated in reference to the grand old man o
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Brian Lara facts for kids
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| Full name | Brian Charles Lara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1969-05-02) 2 May 1969 (age 55) Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–2008 | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Northern Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1998 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Southern Rocks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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