Remembering Brian Lara: The best left-hander to have played a game

On Jan 5, 1993, Brian Lara detonate onto a stage with a briliant 277 opposite Australia in a Sydney Cricket Ground. We take a demeanour during some engaging contribution about a master batsman.

Remembering Brian Lara: The best left-hander to have played a game

When one thinks of a biggest batsman in universe cricket, names like Sir Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting come to a mind. But people tend to forget maybe a biggest maladroit batsman to have played a game, Brian Lara.

On Jan 5th, 1993, a immature artless West Indian named Brian Lara detonate onto a stage opposite Australia in Sydney. Brian Lara scored a huge double ton for a lass Test century with a measure of 277 opposite a peculiarity bowling attack, divided from home.

The double ton valid to be a turning indicate of a array as West Indies won a final dual Tests to win a array 2–1. 

Let’s take a demeanour during some of Brian Lara’s personal contribution and achievements:

  • Brian Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 during SCG.
  • He has a top particular measure in both first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire opposite Durham in 1994) and Test cricket (400 not out for a West Indies opposite England in 2004.
  • Brian Lara is a usually male to have reclaimed a Test record score, carrying scored 375 opposite England in 1994, a record that stood until Matthew Hayden’s 380 opposite Zimbabwe in 2003. He after scored 400, that is a record Test measure compartment date.
  • Brian Lara’s 400 not out also done him a second actor (after Donald Bradman) to measure dual Test triple-centuries, and a second (after Bill Ponsford) to measure dual first-class quadruple-centuries
  • Brian Lara has antiquated former Durham County Cricket Club receptionist and British slip indication Lynnsey Ward. During a West Indies debate to Australia in late 2000, Brian Lara was accompanied by Ward.
  • When former US President Barrack Obama visited Trinidad and Tobago, he called Brian Lara a ‘Micheal Jordan of cricket’. Barrack Obama pronounced that he did not know most about Cricket, though he estimated a value of Brain Lara to Cricket would be homogeneous to Michael Jordan’s to Basketball.

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