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Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a former West Indian international cricket player.He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of his era and one of the finest ever to have graced the game. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and 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, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 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 Brad man in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

 Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as "The Prince of Port of Spain" or simply "The Prince". He has the dubious distinction of playing in second highest number of test matches (63) in which his team was on losing side, just behind Shivnarine Chanderpaul(68).

 Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	131	232	6	11953	400*	52.88	19753	60.51	34	48	1559	88	164	0
ODIs	299	289	32	10405	169	40.48	13086	79.51	19	63			120	0
First-class	261	440	13	22156	501*	51.88			65	88			320	0
List A	429	411	43	14602	169	39.67			27	86			177	0
Twenty20	3	3	0	99	65	33.00	86	115.11	0	1	11	1	0	0

 Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	131	4	60	28	0	-	-	-	2.80	-	0	0	0
ODIs	299	5	49	61	4	2/5	2/5	15.25	7.46	12.2	0	0	0
First-class	261		514	416	4	1/1		104.00	4.85	128.5		0	0
List A	429		130	149	5	2/5	2/5	29.80	6.87	26.0	0	0	0
Twenty20	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Brian Lara

Brian Lara