In 2013, Lara received Honorary Life Membership of the MCC becoming the 31st West Indian to receive the honor.Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as “The Prince of Port of Spain” or simply “The Prince”. Lara's first school was St. Joseph's Roman Catholic primary.
Brian Lara announced his retirement from international cricket in 2007 after scoring 22,358 runs and 53 centuries for West Indies. Brian Lara Retirement On 19 April 2007 Lara announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket, indicating that the West Indies vs England match on 21 April 2007 would be his last international appearance.He was run out after a bad mixup with Marlon Samuels for 18, as England went on to win the match by one wicket. He has the highest individual score in both He is the only man to have reclaimed the Test record score, having scored 375 against England in 1994, a record that stood until Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46.50, the highest average by a West Indian in that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116 against Australia.
He nevertheless affirmed his commitment to returning to Twenty20 cricket,On the occasion of bicentennial anniversary of Lord's ground he played for the team of MCC, under the leadership of Sachin Tendulkar against the Rest of World XI in a 50 over game.After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL),On 18 November 2016, Brian Lara signed with Newcastle C&S D5's side The Bennett Hotel Centurions.Lara is the father of a daughter called Sydney (born 1996) whom he fathered with Trinidadian journalist and model Leasel Rovedas. His father Bunty and one of his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays. Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.
After his last match, in the post-game presentation interview, he asked the fans, “Did I entertain?”, to which he received a resounding cheer from the crowd, after which he went out and took his ‘lap of honour’ where he met and shook hands with many of the fans.Lara stated this would be his last appearance in international cricket, he has also indicated his interest in retaining some involvement in the sport.On 23 July 2007 Lara agreed to sign for the Indian Cricket League.
His second daughter Tyla was also with Leasel Rovedas and she was born in 2010.Lara’s father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.After negotiations between Surrey and Lara for the 2010 Friends Provident t20 failed to come to anything, Lara declared that he still wanted to sign a contract to play Twenty20 cricket.Late in the year he joined Southern Rocks, a Zimbabwean side, to compete in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series. In the 2004 Antigua Test against England, the stylish left-hander eclipsed Matthew Hayden’s 380* on his way to … After his last match, in the post-game presentation interview, he asked the fans, "Did I entertain? Later that season, under his captaincy, West Indies won the two match Test series against Sri Lanka 1–0 with Lara making a double-century in the First Test. Brian Lara also shares the test record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.Lara’s match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 which has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals, has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.Brian Lara was appointed honorary member of the Order of Australia on 27 November 2009. On 14 September 2012 he was inducted to the ICC’s Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka as a 2012–13 season inductee along with Australians Glenn McGrath and former England women all-rounder Enid Bakewell. For his performances in 2004, he was named both in the World Test XI and ODI XI by ICC.In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Lara returned to the team for the second Test (and scored a huge first innings score of 196), but in the process lost his captaincy indefinitely to the newly appointed For his performances in 2005, he was named in the World Test XI by ICC.On 26 April 2006 Lara was reappointed the captain of the West Indies cricket team for the third time.
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