Personal Information

Full NameBrian Charles Lara
BornMay 2, 1969 Cantaro, Santa Cruz
Age54 Years, 10 Months, 17 Days
National SideWest Indies
Batting StyleLeft Handed
BowlingLeg break googly
SportCricket

Ranking

TestODIT20
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Man of the Match

TestODIT20World CupCL
1230-4-

Career Information

Teams PlayedWest Indies, ICC World XI, Mumbai Champs, Northerns, Southern Rocks, Warwickshire, West Indies Inv XI, Young West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Under-19, Marylebone Cricket Club, Sachins Blasters, Bravo XI, West Indian Legends, Ponting XI
Career Span

Brian Charles Lara Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

MIN/ORHS100s50s4s6sAVGS/RCTSTDucksR/O
Test
131232611953400* v ENG344815598852.8860.511640
ODI
2992893210405169 v SL1963103513340.4879.511200
World Cup
343341225116 v SA271241742.2486.26160

Bowling Performance

IOMRWBest3s5sAVGE/RS/RMtc
Test
41012800/0 v ENG00-2.80-
ODI
58.106142/5 v ENG0015.257.4612.25

Brian Charles Lara Profile

One look at Brian Charles Lara's Test scores, and there is no doubt in one's mind that here is a batsman with a vociferous appetite for runs. In the year 1994, he broke his countryman Gary Sobers' long standing record for many decades by scoring a brilliant 375. As if to prove that this was not a fluke, he followed it up with an unbeaten 501 in a first class match for Warwickshire the following season. In 2004, Lara became the first batsman to reclaim the highest individual Test score record by scoring a 400 against England, in the process breaking Hayden's 380.

Lara's attitude towards cricket can be best described as moody brilliance. To go with the above records, he is probably the only batsman to have tackled Murali the way he did, scoring 600-odd runs in a three match series in Sri Lanka, his innings epitomized by quicksilver feet movement. And then there were times, when he looked good to be anywhere but the batting crease, almost as if his mind's not on the job. As if to drive home a point, Lara's overall Test average of almost 53 is not too dissimilar from his 51 against the Aussies, and it was only 41 against NZ.

Brian Lara's ODI record of more than 10,000 runs at an average of almost 41 was equally great, but somehow, his amazing Test innings overshadowed the same. Incidentally, Lara became the second batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar to score more than 10,000 runs in both forms of the game.

On retirement, Lara is one of the few cricketers, whose Test average was more than his First Class one!