Brian Lara – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Full nameBrian Charles Lara

Born2 May 1969

Age57 Years

NationalityTrinidadian

RoleBatsman/Left Hand Batsman

Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	131	11953	52.88	60.51	0	2.80
ODI	299	10405	40.48	79.51	4	7.46
T20	3	99	33.00	115.11	0	–
List A	429	14602	39.67	–	5	6.87
First-class	261	22156	51.88	–	4	4.85

Family

RelationsLeasel Rovedas (Spouse)

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	131	232	6	11953	400	52.88	19753	60.51	34	48	1559	88	164
ODI	299	289	32	10405	169	40.48	13086	79.51	19	63	1042	133	120
T20	3	3	0	99	65	33.00	86	115.11	0	1	11	1	0
List A	429	411	43	14602	169	39.67	0	–	27	86	0	0	177
First-class	261	440	13	22156	501	51.88	0	–	65	88	0	0	320

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ
Test	131	4	10	28	0	–	–	2.80
ODI	299	5	8.1	61	4	2/5	15.25	7.46
List A	429	0	21.4	149	5	2/5	29.80	6.87
First-class	261	0	85.4	416	4	–	104.00	4.85

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
ICC Champions Trophy	18	449	111	28.06	75.21	0	–
ICC Cricket World Cup	34	1225	116	39.52	86.27	0	–

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50	100
Australia	52	1885	139	36.96	76.50	15	3
Pakistan	48	1771	156	37.68	78.96	6	5
Sri Lanka	30	1315	169	43.83	77.35	11	2
India	44	1270	89	28.86	74.57	7	0
South Africa	37	1219	116	32.95	71.12	6	3
Zimbabwe	30	1172	113	40.41	92.79	10	1
New Zealand	26	1068	146	42.72	89.82	7	2
England	27	795	110	29.44	79.66	6	1
Bangladesh	7	245	117	35.00	119.51	0	1

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Bangladesh	1	2	12	6.00	5.54	6.50
England	2	2	17	8.50	5.67	9.00
Australia	1	0	15	–	15.00	–
New Zealand	1	0	17	–	8.50	–

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50	100
England	51	2983	400	58.49	64.22	11	7
Australia	58	2856	277	49.24	61.09	11	8
South Africa	35	1715	202	53.59	53.71	9	4
Sri Lanka	18	1245	221	69.17	56.75	2	6
Pakistan	22	1173	216	53.32	67.76	3	4
India	29	1002	120	34.55	52.74	6	2
New Zealand	19	766	147	40.32	64.75	5	1
Zimbabwe	4	222	191	55.50	85.38	0	1
Bangladesh	2	173	120	86.50	77.58	1	1

Bowling vs	Inn	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Australia	1	4	–	2.00	–
New Zealand	1	8	–	2.00	–
India	1	16	–	5.33	–
England	1	0	–	0.00	–

Last 10 innings · batting

6vs IND-M

41vs SL-M

29vs SA-M

4*vs IND-M

33vs AUS-M

17vs SL-L

22*vs ENG-L

46vs IND-L

3vs ENG-L

31*vs BAN-L

T20 vs IND-M16 Mar 2025 · c P Negi b V Kumar 6(6) T20 vs SL-M14 Mar 2025 · Retired out 41(33) T20 vs SA-M11 Mar 2025 · c RE Levi b R McLaren 29(34) T20 vs IND-M8 Mar 2025 · Not out 4*(1) T20 vs AUS-M24 Feb 2025 · c BE McGain b BW Hilfenhaus 33(21) T20 vs SL-L30 Sep 2022 · b N Kulasekara 17(11) T20 vs ENG-L17 Sep 2022 · Not out 22*(21) T20 vs IND-L17 Mar 2021 · b V Kumar 46(28) T20 vs ENG-L16 Mar 2021 · st P Mustard b J Tredwell 3(5) T20 vs BAN-L12 Mar 2021 · Not out 31*(23)

About Brian Lara

Brian Lara Biography

Brian Charles Lara, a wizard waving his bat on the pitch like a wand, a relentless force of nature and one of the greatest batsmen the modern era has seen.

Lara’s style would mesmerize not only common spectators but professional cricket players also. Breaking records and appetite for a humongous score was Lara’s bread and butter.

Background

The 10th child of 11 siblings, Lara was taught cricket at the Harvard Coaching Clinic from the age of six. He used to play for Trinidad's junior football and table tennis side, but cricket was his true love.

At just the age of 14, Brian made 745 runs at 126.6, which got him selected for the Trinidad’s Under-16 team. A year later, he was in Indies Under-19 side.

In the year 1990, Lara was the youngest captain of Trinidad and Tobago. He lead them to victory in the Geddes Grant Shield.

Debut

Lara made his test debut, scoring 44 and 6 against Pakistan. He had already made his ODI debut scoring 11 against Pakistan a month earlier.

Rise To Glory

Lara showed his class in January 1993 by scoring 277 against Australia in Sydney. His century was a turning point of the series and West Indies went on to win it 2-1.

Brian holds several records of three digit runs. Scoring 501 not out for Warwickshire in first class cricket and 375 not out for Indies in a test match against England.

Lara is the only player to register 400 in test cricket. He has scored nine double test centuries, which is the third highest after Donald Bradman’s 12 and Kumar Sangakkara’s 11.

Captaincy

Lara was appointed as captain of the West Indies team in 1998. However, he was sacked the same year due to player revolts over pay delays, and was made the captain again in 1999 against Australia.

He scored three hundreds in three consecutive matches of the series and received Man of the Series award. The test series ended in a 2–2 draw.

In the year 2000, Brian resigned as captain of the Indies side deciding to take a break from cricket for four months. He was re-appointed captaincy in 2003. In September 2004, Indies won ICC Champions Trophy under his captaincy.

In March 2005, Lara declined being selected for the West Indian side because of a dispute over sponsorship deal, but returned to the side scoring an emphatic 196. However, he lost his captaincy again to Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

On April 26th 2006 Lara was re-appointed captain for the third time which followed the resignation of Chanderpaul who was captaining the side for thirteen months.

Low points and high points in career

Highs and lows are part of a player’s career, and thee West Indies legend was not immune to it. Brian was overweight and had hamstring issues. Occasional hundreds were all that he scored.

After a gap of 4 months , he was back in action in 2001-02 against Sri Lanka when scored 221 and 130 in one test and 688 runs in the series, a record 42% of the West Indies output.

Same year, Lara was named Man of Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46.50, the highest by an West Indian player in that series.

Retirement

On 21st April 2007, Lara played his final international World Cup game against England. He could score just 18 runs and was run out after a miscommunication with Marlon Samuels.

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