Brian Lara Cricket Profile

Country

West Indies

Full Name

Brian Charles Lara

Born

May 2, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad

Teams

West Indies, ICC World XI, Northern Transvaal, Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire

Batting style

Left-hand bat

Bowling style

Leg break googly

Brian Lara is one greats of Cricket and is compared with players like Sachin Tendulkar and Gary Sobers.

Brian Lara Achievements

Former captain of West Indies Cricket Team. Record 375 not out against England, He scored 501 for Warwickshire against Durham a few months later. Brian Lara in the West Indies test against Sri Lanka in winter of 2001, scored a 221 and a 130 in consecutive innings. Broke the World record score by scoring 375 against England in Antigua on 18th April 1994, previously held by Sir Garfield Sobers test match record of 365 not-out.
Broke the World record score again on April by scoring 400 not out against England at the same ground in Antigua, 10 years to the week after the first time.
Only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, and quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.
Winner of Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1995.