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Brian Lara: Joe Root’s flair puts him up with very best

5 June 2017 0 comments

…like Brian Lara and I am just in awe of what they did.” And it would appear the admiration is mutual. When Lara talks, in his laid-back Caribbean way, you…

Martin Johnson column – It’s a T20 borefest but it could save Test cricket!

10 May 2017 0 comments

…television and sponsors. Scarcely a week goes by without some new proposal being mooted to save Test cricket, and the latest one comes from Brian Lara. Abolish the draw says…

Simon Sweetman column – As Gayle nears another milestone, who’s interested?

19 April 2017 0 comments

…– until beaten by Brian Lara in 1994 for Warwickshire. After two days Durham had declared on 556-8 and Warwickshire were 210-2 with Lara 111. The third day was lost…

Do bowlers get overlooked as England captain because of the old class system?

14 February 2017 0 comments

…there. Of the three, Walsh had the best team to work with but his tenure was intermittent, mostly picking up the pieces from Brian Lara’s hissy fits following the latter’s…

Lancashire sign Chanderpaul and Vilas

27 January 2017 1 comment

…7th highest-ever run scorer in the long form of the game and behind only Brian Lara for his country. Vilas, meanwhile, has struggled to make the South Africa XI since…

Have we all been getting in a spin for years over this flawed theory?

20 December 2016 0 comments

…likely a safer way to play. In presenting the full face the batsman has the greatest chance of finding the middle of the bat. Brian Lara scored 688 runs at…

When Harmy had them on the hop at Sabina Park

13 December 2016 0 comments

…been blasted open. West Indies were then 15 for three. Next it was Lara’s turn, and it was clear that total capitulation was a real possibility. Surely, one of the…

Action Replay – No winners, just losers, in Speed’s Super Series of 2005

16 November 2016 0 comments

…by a whopping 156 runs. A batting line-up containing Chris Gayle, Brian Lara, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Kumar Sangakkara mustered just 137 in response to Australia’s 293-5….

Peter Hayter column – Duck, that Anderson glare is like Sybil’s umbrella!

12 October 2016 0 comments

…the final Test between West Indies and England in Antigua, I asked Brian Lara whether, in view of his shaky form in the series this far, he was concerned (that…

Outgrounds – Surrey

20 September 2016 0 comments

…house, attendance-wise, watched Brian Lara, fresh from his 501 against Durham. Unfortunately scores of 2 and 44 left the crowd to marvel at the glory of an Andy Moles double…

Where are they now? Sussex – 1993 NatWest Trophy runners-up

31 August 2016 0 comments

…a hugely talented Sussex a couple of seasons to get over that result while Warwickshire, who signed Brian Lara the following season, went from strength to strength. “It would have…

Derek Pringle column – England must take lead from Thorpe’s mindset

30 August 2016 0 comments

…only the ability to pick length quicker. Take Brian Lara against Sri Lanka in November 2001, when Muttiah Muralitharan was running through most sides with predictable regularity. Lara made 688…

Peter Hayter column – Remember, fifth day gave us Botham’s ‘miracle’

16 August 2016 0 comments

…over four days, but two spring to mind – Ian Botham’s Ashes miracle of 1981 at Headingley and Brian Lara’s contender for the greatest knock of all time, his last-day…

How Lord’s intensifies both glory and failure

14 June 2016 0 comments

…(5-16), Darren Gough (2-17) and Dominic Cork (3-13), humbling Brian Lara & Co. for 64 and Cork and Gough holding their nerve in the late evening to nick victory by…

Jimmy vs Cook – Have we ever had it so good with ball & bat?

7 June 2016 0 comments

…Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Kumar Sangakkara, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Mahela Jayawardene, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Gavaskar. All of them are in his sights and there are those who would…

We Test lovers must fight to prove KP’s no Mystic Meg

30 May 2016 0 comments

…could never be another final day like the one Brian Lara gave us in March 1999 at Barbados, when he scored an unbeaten 153 to lead West Indies to victory…

England lost throughout the 1990s – because rivals were the all-time greats

23 May 2016 0 comments

…Warne and Murali the decade held arguably the two greatest spinners of all time, and indubitably Test cricket’s deadliest wicket-takers. In Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, the game was blessed…

Cook has been England’s rock and deserves his place in history

10 May 2016 0 comments

…Sangakkara, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Mahela Jayawardene, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Sunil Gavaskar in that elite group. The Essex opener, 31 at Christmas, will also become the youngest to…

My Life in Cricket – Alan Wells

26 April 2016 0 comments

…go! To be fair I had spent a couple of days chasing leather in the field, as Brian Lara got a huge hundred while Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Carl Hooper also…

A Brief History of Gambling in Cricket

4 March 2016 0 comments

…cricket coverage, ultimately making household names out of the sport’s biggest stars like Brian Lara, Ian Botham, Kevin Pietersen and a slew of others. Not that this seemed to in…

We’ll miss Brendon McCullum…

1 March 2016 0 comments

…but also an intimidating physicality. Brian Lara could put you away for four all day backward of point but he did it with neat timing and minimal fuss. As a…

Derek Pringle column – When the panic sets in there is nowhere to hide…

28 February 2016 0 comments

…left to lick their wounds. A day after the carnage I asked a taxi driver how local lad, Brian Lara, might have gone against the 6ft 7in Ambrose in that…

Hayter column: Why I won’t doubt Jimmy

8 February 2016 0 comments

…decline? Just like Brian Lara was the day before he made history. And just like Lara, maybe we should let him tell us when it’s true. This piece originally featured…

Looking back – Curtly Ambrose

1 December 2015 0 comments

…a docile Antigua Recreation Ground surface, years later the venue of Lara’s 375 and 400 not out, Ambrose snatched 12 wickets, nine bowled. By the end of the tournament he…

Phillip Hughes – one year on