Lara holds several world records for high scoring. In January 1993, Lara scored 277 versus Australia in Sydney, this was his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, this innings was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2-1.Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG. In the 1992 World Cup Lara did well averaging 47.57 with a highest score of 88 retired hurt. He had made his ODI debut a month earlier against Pakistan, scoring 11. It was also in 1990 that he made his belated Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5.

In 1990, at the age of 20, Lara became Trinidad and Tobago's youngest ever captain, leading them that season to victory in the one-day Geddes Grant Shield. In 1989, he captained a West Indies B Team in Zimbabwe and scored 145. His first selection for the full West Indies team followed in due course, but unfortunately coincided with the death of his father and Lara withdrew from the team. Later that year, his innings of 182 as captain of the West Indies under 23 XI against the touring Indian team elevated his reputation even further. Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals. In his second first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies teams. In January 1988, Lara made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the Red Stripe Cup against Leeward Islands. He captained the Trinidad and Tobago team at this tournament whom eventually won the tournament due to a match winning 116 from Lara. He is regarded as one of the finest batsmen ever to have played the game.ġ987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs beating the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year. Lara was the record holder for the highest number of runs ever scored by a batsman in test cricket until he was surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar on 17 October, 2008.

He also holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with a total of 501* for Warwick shire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, as well as the highest individual score in a test innings with 400 not out. Brian Charles Lara is often called as the Left Handed God of Cricket(nicknamed 'The Prince of Port-of-Spain', 'The Prince of Trinidad' or simply 'The Prince')by his fans allover the world.He was born on 2nd May 1969 in a family of 11 children and he being the last.He has topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions where he holds the record for highest individual innings.

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