The Most Famous
CRICKETERS from Trinidad and Tobago
This page contains a list of the greatest Trinidadian Cricketers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 Cricketers, 1 of which were born in Trinidad and Tobago. This makes Trinidad and Tobago the birth place of the 10th most number of Cricketers behind Barbados, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Trinidadian Cricketers of all time. This list of famous Trinidadian Cricketers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Brian Lara (b. 1969)
With an HPI of 34.76, Brian Lara is the most famous Trinidadian Cricketer. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994,and the record for the highest individual score in an international Test innings, after scoring 400 not out at Antigua during the 4th test against England in 2004. Lara also held, for 18 years, the record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over of a Test match when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003, until his record was overtaken by Jasprit Bumrah in 2022.As captain, Lara led the West Indies team to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the first time the team won any major ICC trophy since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup. Lara topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions, and his match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 was rated by Wisden 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 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 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, and in September 2012 he was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame as a 2012–13 season inductee. 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".
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Trinidadian cricketers born between 1969 and 1969. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Trinidadian cricketers include Brian Lara.
