Brian Lara

Lara's match-winning achievement of 153 not out adjoin Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the additional best batting achievement in the history of Analysis cricket, abutting alone to the 270 runs denticulate by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes analysis bout of 1937.[8] Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Analysis bout bowler anytime by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,[9] and the accomplished wicket-taker in both Analysis cricket[10] and in One Day Internationals (ODIs),[11] has hailed Lara as his toughest adversary amid all batsmen in the world.[12] Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the Apple awards in 1994 and 1995[13] and is additionally one of alone three cricketers to accept the celebrated BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the added two actuality Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.[14] Brian Lara is bargain nicknamed as The Prince of Trinidad or artlessly The Prince.[1] On the 27th November 2009 he was appointed an honorary affiliate of the Order of Australia. He topped the Analysis batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records. He holds the almanac for the accomplished alone account in capital cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire adjoin Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the alone quintuple hundred in capital candid history.[3] The BBC radio annotation on the final day of the innings (June 6, 1994), by Dave Roberts, was advertisement alive about the apple via the BBC Apple Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as able-bodied as the majority of BBC Local radio stations. It resulted in a huge billow of admirers aggravating to access the arena backward in the day as Lara neared the best batting record. He additionally holds the almanac for the accomplished alone account in a analysis innings afterwards scoring 400 not out adjoin England at Antigua in 2004.[4] He is the alone batsman to accept anytime denticulate a hundred, a bifold century, a amateur century, a quadruple aeon and a quintuple aeon in aboriginal chic amateur over the advance of a chief career.[5][6] Lara additionally holds the analysis almanac of scoring best cardinal of runs in a distinct over in a Analysis match, back he denticulate 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.