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Name : Brian Charles Lara
Date Of Birth : May 2, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad
Teams: West Indies, ICC World XI, Marylebone Cricket Club, Mumbai Champs, Northern Transvaal, Southern Rocks, Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire
Remarkable Shots : Calypso Pull, Straight Drive, Delicate touch, Leg Glance, Anything and Everything :)
Debut(Test) : Pakistan v West Indies at Lahore, Dec 6-11, 1990
Debut(ODI) : Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi, Nov 9, 1990
For more details visit our Statistics page
Format | Matches | Innings | NO's | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 |
Test | 131 | 232 | 6 | 11953 | 400* | 52.88 | 19753 | 60.51 | 34 | 48 |
One Day | 299 | 289 | 32 | 10405 | 169 | 40.48 | 13086 | 79.51 | 19 | 63 |
T20 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 99 | 65 | 33.00 | 86 | 115.11 | 0 | 1 |
* Denotes Not Out
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Holder of the Highest individual score in Test cricket(400*) and First-class score(501*)
Lara became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings
Lara scored the ninth fastest Test century, doing so off 77 balls against Pakistan on 21 November 2006
Lara has the most centuries for a West Indian
Lara has been ranked the number one batsman in Test cricket in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Cricket Ratings several times
Lara is the only player to break the world record twice
Lara has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations.
Lara became the sixth batsman to score a century in one session
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Lara has an entry in the Seventh edition of the Collins Concise English Dictionary as a Trinidadian cricketer : holder of records for highest individual score in first class cricket and for highest Test innings score. Source link