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Two teenagers were killed after they crashed their vehicle into an Avondale business while being pursued by Phoenix police on ...
Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant is close to joining the elite list of Sir Don Bradman, Rahul Dravid, Brian Lara, ...
On April 12, 20 years ago, Brian Lara swept England’s off-spinner Gareth Batty for a single to bring up the first individual score of 400 in Test cricket, the only quadruple to date.
Brian Lara produced a masterclass in how to face Australia’s pace attack as the 54-year-old wound back the clock in a brilliant net session designed to emulate the fast-bowling trio.
Brian Lara has an affinity for numbers. If it weren’t for cricket, he says, he would have ended up as an accountant. It’s perhaps only poetic that the game that had consumed him since he was a ...
BBC Sport recalls Brian Lara's 501 not out for Warwickshire, the highest individual score made in first-class cricket.
Keeping a 1500 run cut-off for the period, Brian Lara averaged 60.90, only behind Ricky Ponting, Mohammad Yousuf, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis.
When Brian Lara pulled Chris Lewis through midwicket to break Garry Sobers' 36-year-old record at a packed Recreation Ground in Antigua in 1994, there seemed no end to what he might achieve. But ...
Unsurprisingly, Lara had a disturbed night. "I woke up, and couldn't get back to sleep for nerves," he said, admitting that at 4am he had been standing in front of a mirror practising his shots.
Brian Lara scored 11,953 runs in his 131 Test matches at an average of 52.88 During the remainder of the first day, Lara took West Indies to 274-3, advancing his score to 164.
Brian Lara, born May 2, 1969, was a genius with the willow, a left-handed legend the likes of whom grace the world once in a generation. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the career of the man who ...