It's all over, and it's an end of an era

It was only in the year 1991 I started watching cricket with a lot of curiosity… and the following year it was the 1992 Worldcup. The kiwis were the really in a good form at that time and i was supporting them and became a fan of Martin Crowe but me supporting the Kiwis dint last for a long.

When I was talking about cricket with my mom she was just listening to me as she doesn’t know much about the game in-fact even I don’t know much at that time, then ma dad told me about the mighty WINDIES and gave me some books that he has collected during his college days which was about the West Indian cricketers. The book just had pics of those players who toured Pakistan and Indian in 1980s and their records. Ma dad told a lot of Sir Viv Richards and I also got some inputs from ma grandpa. He was also a great fan of the then West Indian team.

We just had Doordarshan at that time and all the matches were not aired live and if you want to any cricket news the only way to read the news paper. One day the news was about a young cricketer who scored his maiden century against the Aussies. Yeah it was Lara and he scored 277 against the odds. From them, till date I am a hard core WINDIES fan…. In fact more than a fan. It's all cause of him, the one and only LARA. He has retired from international cricket now but I am still a great fan of the legendary WestIndian cricket team and will be supporting them at any cause….

Almost all his innings were unforgettable but some of the most memorable innings of Lara that I have witnessed were

His 96 out against Australia in 1996/97... The situation was 10 overs 96 to win and he single handedly won the match which made Australia failing to reach the finals of the Commonwealth Bank Series for the first time since the inaugural competition in 1979-80. 

All his innings in the Srilankan tour in which he scored almost 40% of the teams total

His century in the 1996 Worldcup against South Africa

153 in 143 balls against Pakistan in Sharjah

153* against Australia that made Windies win the test match

213 against Australia in the same series – another match winning innings

400* against to England and many more

FOR SOME SUCCESS IS THE WAY OF LIFE..............AND BRIAN CHARLES LARA IS NO EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE..............

Brian Lara' s 277 against Australia in Sydney 1993, his maiden Test century,was the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman

Lara celebrates breaking Garfield Sobers' record individual score of 365 in Tests, againt England on April 18, 1994, at St John's, Antigua

And later, Lara relaxes in the changing room after breaking the world record

Lara pulls on his way to 501 Warwickshire against Durham in 1994

Lara sweeps during his hundred against South Africa in the 1996 Wills World Cup quarter-finals at Karachi. Lara single-handedly knocked South Africa out of the tournament

Lara smashes one through the covers on his way to scoring 213 against Australia in 1999. Many say this innings, and his unbeaten 153 in the following Test, were his finest

Yet another special innings from Lara, his innings of 153* taking his team to victory over Australia




Lara was immense in the 2001-02 series in Sri Lanka, scoring an astonishing 42% of West Indies' runs




Almost ten years to the day, Lara breaks the record. Again. His magnificent 400 helped avoid a whitewash by England, whose bowlers had dominated the series

Lara holds aloft the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004, the biggest ODI tournament West Indies achieved under his captaincy

Lara celebrates after breaking Allan Border's record of 11,174 Test runs in Adelaide on November 26, 2005

Lara looks on during the opening ceremony photo shoot of the 2007 Worldcup

Lara walks through a guard of honor to start his final innings

Now its all over... bye bye Lara