Brian Lara

Brian Lara

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Lara has received more than 4,225,571 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Lara is the 16th most popular cricketer (down from 13th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Trinidadian Cricketer.