Don't underestimate Lara's 213 and 153n.o. ☆It's not just showing up to bat![as with other players]☆ The pressure on him during those Games was tremendous- whitewash by SouthAfrica, verge of being Fired for good by WICB, all out for 51 in the 1st Test in Trinidad (which was shameful& on all newspapers frontpage in trinidad & Caribbean) and with a weakened inconsistent side, hostile Jamaica crowd. His 213 innings was better than his 153 n.o. No other player had to deal with all that Negative Baggage & Immense Pressure and produce that level of magic Lara did. It is Not better than Lara's innings
Seeing this as a young boy in the Caribbean live at the time..it goes down as the best innings i've ever seen and probably will see by a WI batsman in my lifetime..
One of the greatest match winner of the cricket faternity.....Just only wish what would have he achieved if only he had a good team....He is the best....and will be best .....That charisma , that flair and above all standing alone and fighting it out when everyting was lost....A one in a generation player.....Miss u Prince Lara.
Do you even know the Windies team stats from mid 90's onwards? The names you took were probably the only ones performing. Hooper wasn't even consistent. Richardson had retired. Walsh and Ambrose could only do as much after Bishop had injury problems. Name one fast bowler of merit after Ambrose and Walsh.
He wasn't a match winner to be honest...but one of the most selfish batsman..he could have won many matches but for his own achievements he didnt e g that 400 against England and not to forget he has the most hundreds in a losing cause in test matches.
@@Ashutoshsinghh31 Selfish? Lara? Just because he scored one 400 doesn't make him selfish. He had the weakest batting order for a long time and the team didn't stick around long enough for him to win matches.
@@sanjeevopeth Weakest batting line would not change the fact that he was selfish..His 400 came in the dead rubber where his team already lost the series and he could have won the last match but instead of that he kept playing for his record and as a result,the match ended in a draw.
remember this as if it was just yesterday. Absolutely astounding knock based on the circumstances prior, Glad to have witnessed this special knock. BEST EVER.
It was mid-night 12:30, need to go to school next day, but I just want to switch on TV to see if Lara is batting! What an entertainer, TV has to be on if Lara or Sachin is batting. Thank you guys for the memories 😊🙏
Pollock only played 20 test matches. And quite frankly was quite lucky to play even that seeing that apartheid had been around since 1948 and SA was only expelled in 1970. 20 is too amall a sample to use in a best ever argument
I was in college; though from India we gew batchmets were hardcore Lara fans and we always put him before sachin anyday; it was very late night to almost morning when the barbados test finished and the warrior stood alone battling one of the best bowlign attack of all time of warne, gilli and mcgrath, bret lee, he just didnt cared who bowled that day, the kind took the match away from aussies plate, 20 years after i still feel goosebumps remembering that night, greatest test innings from the greatest batsman of all time! Salute the king! Thanks for all Lara!
Great knock by greatest left hand batsman who left sledging Australia behind. It's unforgettable the way Walsh's batting, McGrath war of words, Lara batting..
He's not just best he's one of the few players that fans of opponent team would want to see on the wicket. Because in the end spectators come to see a performance and who else knows how to perform but Lara. "Style bolay tu Khatam hay is banday par."
Brian Lara is the greatest batsman of all time with no doubt and the greatest innings of all time and one of the greatest cricket series ever. Non can compare to the great Brian Charles Lara .
peter nicholson bradman is not greater than Lara or Sachin he only play 44 test matches so nobody should predict that he would of continue on that path I see lots of batsman get good starts to there careers and end up on a low example dwayne Smith he score century on dabute against south Africa very good bowling attacks.and everyone was saying that he is a player for the future and it did not happened his career ended very early without a next test century...next is Hamilton masachadza of Zimbabwe the youngest ever batsman to score a century on dabute and he too ended up desastrously so please stop saying bradman is the greatest when he is not that is just prediction my friend
Wow that's just factually inaccurate... he played 52 tests from 1928 to 1948 averaging 99.94.He was head and shoulders above all his contemporaries for nearly 20 years and nobody has even two-thirds of his average.Where are these lows you speak of?Be honest have you even heard of him before?
peter nicholson I have to talk about what I have seen and who I've seen play I have never seen bradman bat .and as far as I know the greatest set of bowlers came in Lara and sachins era bowlers like Donald and Pollock ,wash and Ambrose, McGrath,and Gillespie,wasim ,and waquor, chamida vaas.shrinath.kumble, warne,murillitharan,mushtaq.shoab ahktar and all those guys...who where the bowlers in bradmans era which great bowlers he faced.
Larwood Voce Bowes Verity were pretty good.It was you who said 'greatest batsman of ALL TIME no doubt'.If you had said in your time and I know nothing of earlier eras fair enough.
I am a huge brain lara fan. Let me get that straight out. I think he is better than sachin in tests. However, i would like to point out hypocrisy of some of kohli haters. When kohli scored 149 at Edgbaston and two catches were dropped, they kept on mentioning about the dropped catches. Here in this innings, lara also got dropped by healy and the match would have been over. Steve smith got dropped 4 times when he scored hundred at Pune turner in 2016 but it was rated the best innings of 2016 by espncricinfo experts. Have some consistency folks.
Abhinandhan Raghu Lara with all due respect is one of my favorites. *Most attractive batsman ever* But he prospered mainly on home tracks. Lara had 6 single digit scores in 11 test innings in Newzealand. Lara had 4 fifty+ scores in Australia when Mcgrath was playing out of 27 test innings. This included 10 single digit scores having 3 ducks.
@@Aman-nk5uq Yeah that is true. Sachin is a more complete player and statistically the greatest after Bradman. The only reason I rate Lara slightly higher than Sachin is in his ability to score runs quickly and change the course of the game by playing his natural game no matter what. Sachin on the other hand, gets into a shell 5 overs before lunch and tea and end of days play and lost his wicket many times becuase of that. But i agree with your point that Sachin has performed outside home conditions better than Lara.
@@abhinandhanraghu3447 SIR Lord Henry mortimer because Manish Pandey is better than Brian Lara because Manish Pandey scored an unbeaten century against Australia in Australia in Sydney (SCG).
Abhinandhan Raghu this guy is genius 😂 i have seen this guy trolling in the same manner on bollywood videos too. He said Arjun Rampal is better than Dilip kumar because he has got a national award unlike Dilip Kumar 😂😂
Sachin was technically a better batsman but he lacked the mental toughness to finish the game and cleverness of lara to save his,wicket from best bowlers of opposition.that makes lara greatest batsman of his era.
Sachin lacked mental toughness? You kidding? Go watch his 241 at Sidney where he didn't play cover drive for his whole inning. Even in his first test at 16, he got hit by waqars bouncer and he still played. At age of 16, isn't this mental toughness?
I listened to almost all of this innings on radio (unfortunately this series wasn't broadcast on free to air tv in Australia like 91 and 95). So Lara scored 153 without getting out out while six of his partners got out around him plus the one who didn't all contributing 80 between them minus whatever extras were scored while Lara was at the crease (possibly as many as 20 odd given 28 in whole innings and the score quadrupled from when Lara went to the crease to when victory was achieved).
We have seen something like that in the ashes today, another left hander another great matching winning innings, another great 11th wicket partnership with a very stubborn number 11, I didn't see Lara's 153, I can say I did see Stokes 135 against the Aussies......
Danny's Cover I saw both innings. They’re both magnificent innings but Lara, oh yes, Brian Charles Lara, he went into a den of pure gigantic hungry lions and escaped hurting them. The man is fearless despite what or who he’s up against.
Without a doubt the best of all times bc Lara concentration mentally tough batting skills ect 501 runs who does that 400 nto plus triple centuries and makes runs on any pitch against any bowling attacks have been watching these guys most of sachin runs are made on perfect batting pitch against lesser attacks
Dude Sachin averages 50 in South Africa,New Zealand, England and Australia combined....20 of his 100 centuries have come against the best team of his time (Australia).He scored centuries in Perth,Sydney and Manchester as a teenager....FFS do you research.Just bcoz he is an Indian does not mean he did not score overseas.
Just a kind message to some people who presume Indians praise only the Indian players - Who told you Indians don't applaud other good players??? I'm an (Indian and) ardent fan of full team of Australia, NZ, West Indies, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan (and somewhat Zimbabwe also) of late 1990s and early 2000s. My comment won't end if I start naming favorites. Here are few of which I can recall right now - AUS : Gilchrist, Ponting, Waugh brothers, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Bevan, Lehmann, Warne, Bichel, Gillespie, Lee, McGrath and many more NZ : Richardson, Cairns, Harris, Styris, Astle, Vincent, Fleming, Macmillan, Parore, McCullum, Oram, Bond, Tuffey, Vettori, Nash and many more SA : Kirsten, Gibbs, Kallis, Cullinan, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Smith, De Villiers, Boje, Pollock, Donald, Ntini and many more Eng : Knight, Trescothick, Atherton, Ramprakash, Hussain, Butcher, Vaughan, Stewart, Thorpe, Crawley, Cork, Caddick, Hoggard, Gough, Giles, Mullally, Holliake brothers, Flintoff, Cook, Strauss, Pietersen and many more WI : Sherwin Campbell, Hinds, Gayle, Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Lara, Hooper, Adams, Samuels, Jacobs, Ambrose, Walsh, Naagamootoo and lots more (obviously including the legendary WI team of '70s and '80s) Pak : Anwar, Sohail, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam, Afridi, Imran Nazir, Youhana, Younis Khan, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Saqlain, Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Azhar Mahmood, Elahi, Butt, Shoaib Malik and many more (including Abdul Qadir, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Rameez Raja and several others) SL : Jayasuriya, Kaluwitharna, De Silva, Ranatunga, Mahanama, Arnold, Atapattu, Sanga, Jayawardene, Dilshan, Chandana, Samaraveera, Vaas, Muralitharan, Fernando and many more Also many Zimbabwe players like Flower brothers, Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Guy Whittall, Paul Strang, Henry Olonga, Heath Streak, Taibu, Blignaut, Sean Ervine and many others are my favorite, along with Bangladesh players like Ashraful, Kapali, Rafique, Tapash Baisya and nowadays players like Shakib, Mushfiqur, Mustafizur, Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar etc. NOTE : I have written all these names right now based on my memory in one go, so kindly don't doubt that I've merely copied from somewhere. I have genuinely watched and loved all these players' matches hence I remember them. Thank you so much. 😙😚😙😙😙😄😄😊😊😊
here in Trinidad ..we all remember that nail bitting test match.. by that time lara was already a superstar . and yet again prove why he was the most photographed human on the planet.. even more than princess diana ... how proud he made us felt to be Trinidadian .... we had expected darren bravo to take his place in flare and that special placment and timing but .. he gave us a few knocks but could never fill the masters shoes that because his brother already made the family rich and he is a spoil .brate mouthin off the wrong people .. well played sir Brain Charles Lara... you will always be our prince... lash them lara ... licks like peas.. he was bowlers nightmare.. poor guys couldt sleep once lara was still to bat.. ask shane warne ... the guy was susking crying after the games he played against Lara... lets keep our eyes on nickolas pooran.. just maybe who knows..
Always felt bad for lara. He didn't get the support from anywhere in that team at that time. He had some great players in his team here and there like walsh, ambrose, chanderpaul, sarawan, gayle(during lara's end years) But they never quite clicked altogether. Atleast he won champions trophy with WI
Those were days when each and every team had "BOWLERS".Akram,wakar,akhtar,saqlain,Shane warne, McGrath, Pollock,Donald, Ambrose,Walsh,chaminda and the list continue. Tendulkar and Lara both dominated that era which makes them great.
If u think u know anything about cricket u should know and acknowledge this is one of the GREATEST test innings of all time...the situation of the match..the weakness of windows fregile tell order the aggressions of tht time australiam team...the pich condition the way he play with Australian field position everything combine make this innings greatest of all time ...he was a pure GENIUS...and he show why...I do not compare him with any one of his era or current era...but trust me...this man was MAD genius .. unfortunately he start carrear at time when windows cricket start to going down hill ND through out his entire carrier he have company of few ordinary cricketer only exception chandarpaul; Hooper and sarwan..which minimize his opportunity to score some more run and thrush some more position ...hats of to u PRINCE OF TRINIDAD...
This inning by Lara and the recent almost carbon copy inning by Kusal Perera against South Africa are not only great moments in cricket but also great moments in humanity.
Don't underestimate Lara's 213 and 153n.o. It's not just showing up to bat. The pressure on him during those Games was tremendous- whitewash by SouthAfrica, verge of being Fired for good by WICB, all out for 51 in the 1st Test in Trinidad (which was shameful& on all newspapers frontpage in trinidad & Caribbean) and with a weakened inconsistent side, hostile Jamaica crowd. His 213 innings was better than his 153 n.o. No other player had to deal with all that baggage and produce that level of magic Lara did. It is Not better than Lara's innings
wow, in the first episode they dandy forgot to mentioned that the Warne delivered the "ball of the Century" but in this episode they clearly forget to mention that this 153* inning is the "Second Best Inning" in the "History of cricket" point to be noted, ball of the century means from 1900 to 1999! but "second best inning of the history means from 1880 or even eriler!
That was most great inning number one inning of that I see in my life I am great fan of westindies cricket and Brian Lara Richie Richardson and class Carl Hooper Ambrose Walsh and more great caribean players
I saw this innings live. The pressure on Brian Lara outside the field and in the field was just ginormous .. This innings just ranks above anything anyone had scored in the last 30 years. Yeah Sachin included. But don’t forget Glenn McGrath.. he bowled literally non stop from 10 overs before tea till the end of the match. Quite simply the clash of the titans..
Eh......not so much Clash of the Titans. Titans would suggest both sides were evenly matched. The Australia side that came to the Caribbean in 1999 was one of the greatest test outfits in the history of the sport. I remember Sachin said all the other cricketers, even though they hated the way they played the game, were really very envious of having a side that good. On the other side, the WI was careening down to the bottom of cricket where it now resides. Four of the batsmen in the series played 8 tests between them. It was the last gasp of WI greatness, true greatness in test cricket. And if you watch the series, the protagonists for the WI were all part of the golden generation, at least the end of it: Walsh, Curtly, Lara, Adams.
My mom told me that brian was her good friend, she said she would go out to dinner with her friend, brian and her all the time. she once went to dinner over at his house, and his whole team was there, she said they were super tall and had great body structure. brian would always call my mom madam, and everytime she was out with him, paparazzi would be eveywhere
It was the greatest innings ever played. Ben Stokes also played a great innings, nearly as good as Lara's, but the opposition bowlers - Pattinson, Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon were a shade below those Lara faced - McGrath (547 Test wickets), Gillespie (259 Test wickets), Shane Warne (708 Test wickets) and Stuart McGill (208 Test wickets).
It's one of the innings which increased the value of TEST CRICKET. Now a days wherever you see people talk about T20, IPL so many matches. This period of CORONA no cricket at all. Only way to see now is what done in past. What might come future. It's evergreen innings for all his Fan's..
Greatest innings by arguably the greatest batsman of them all ... Masterpiece... it was literally like - "McGrath, Warne, Gillespie.. fuck off.. i am not getting out even if God himself is on your side.." ...
Only 2 people could have done that against McGrath, warne and gillispie as bowlers , steve Waugh as captain , ponting, Langer etc as fielder's and specially on the fifth day batting track . One was Sachin and second one was Lara. To Australians misfortune it was one of these two at the crease
The high backlift like an executioners sword just brilliant to watch. Without a doubt the most exciting batsman of his generation.
Richards was awesome &intimidating but Brian Lara was Magical
Sachin was complete batsmen but Lara is phenomenal
The best ever innings under pressure you can ever imagine. 🙏 Lara the talisman.
Kaustuva Chattopadhyaya . Well said, absolutely!! Being there was mesmerizing and fabulously breathtaking!!
This inning and the recent inning by Kusal perera against South Africa. Those are not only great moments of cricket, but great moments of humanity
Ben Stokes 2 weeks ago
Ryan that’s a very close second to Kusal Perera’s
Don't underestimate Lara's 213 and 153n.o.
☆It's not just showing up to bat![as with other players]☆
The pressure on him during those Games was tremendous- whitewash by SouthAfrica, verge of being Fired for good by WICB, all out for 51 in the 1st Test in Trinidad (which was shameful& on all newspapers frontpage in trinidad & Caribbean) and with a weakened inconsistent side, hostile Jamaica crowd.
His 213 innings was better than his 153 n.o.
No other player had to deal with all that Negative Baggage & Immense Pressure and produce that level of magic Lara did.
It is Not better than Lara's innings
The best Test Innings by a batsman by far, didn't watch Bradman but Lara to me is the greatest batsman ever
Seeing this as a young boy in the Caribbean live at the time..it goes down as the best innings i've ever seen and probably will see by a WI batsman in my lifetime..
best innings i have ever seen period.....probably will ever see by any batsman
Test cricket is always the best cricket to be played
True brø
One of the greatest match winner of the cricket faternity.....Just only wish what would have he achieved if only he had a good team....He is the best....and will be best .....That charisma , that flair and above all standing alone and fighting it out when everyting was lost....A one in a generation player.....Miss u Prince Lara.
Sunil Thapa good team? Like Curtly Ambrose, Walsh, Ian bishop were nothing? Richardson, Carl hooper, jimmy adams, chanderpaul were nothing? Okk then
Do you even know the Windies team stats from mid 90's onwards? The names you took were probably the only ones performing. Hooper wasn't even consistent. Richardson had retired. Walsh and Ambrose could only do as much after Bishop had injury problems. Name one fast bowler of merit after Ambrose and Walsh.
He wasn't a match winner to be honest...but one of the most selfish batsman..he could have won many matches but for his own achievements he didnt e g that 400 against England and not to forget he has the most hundreds in a losing cause in test matches.
@@Ashutoshsinghh31 Selfish? Lara? Just because he scored one 400 doesn't make him selfish. He had the weakest batting order for a long time and the team didn't stick around long enough for him to win matches.
@@sanjeevopeth Weakest batting line would not change the fact that he was selfish..His 400 came in the dead rubber where his team already lost the series and he could have won the last match but instead of that he kept playing for his record and as a result,the match ended in a draw.
Walsh MOTM. Great work surviving those 5 deliveries.
The best thing about Lara was he was very very stylish and equally aggressive,his footwork was damn good.we won't see another lara.
remember this as if it was just yesterday. Absolutely astounding knock based on the circumstances prior, Glad to have witnessed this special knock. BEST EVER.
It was mid-night 12:30, need to go to school next day, but I just want to switch on TV to see if Lara is batting! What an entertainer, TV has to be on if Lara or Sachin is batting. Thank you guys for the memories 😊🙏
Sir Viv and Brian the best two batsmen I’ve seen to date. Third one I wish I saw bat is Sir Gary, and I’m not a West Indian
Khurmiful . Well said!!
Another batsman would be Graeme Pollock of SA
Pollock only played 20 test matches. And quite frankly was quite lucky to play even that seeing that apartheid had been around since 1948 and SA was only expelled in 1970. 20 is too amall a sample to use in a best ever argument
This is such an amazing series by Cricinfo! Each episode is a gem.
Aditya Choudhary . So true!! Remember the 213 also b4 the 153!!
I was in college; though from India we gew batchmets were hardcore Lara fans and we always put him before sachin anyday; it was very late night to almost morning when the barbados test finished and the warrior stood alone battling one of the best bowlign attack of all time of warne, gilli and mcgrath, bret lee, he just didnt cared who bowled that day, the kind took the match away from aussies plate, 20 years after i still feel goosebumps remembering that night, greatest test innings from the greatest batsman of all time! Salute the king! Thanks for all Lara!
Ayan Chakrabarti Well eu opppppppp pour
The best test match I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic.
A study in beautiful batting. Brian Charles Lara.
Great knock by greatest left hand batsman who left sledging Australia behind.
It's unforgettable the way Walsh's batting, McGrath war of words, Lara batting..
Absolutely remarkable!! Champion batsman!! Brian Charles Lara!! Wow just wow
The prince of Trinidad.......
He's not just best he's one of the few players that fans of opponent team would want to see on the wicket. Because in the end spectators come to see a performance and who else knows how to perform but Lara.
"Style bolay tu Khatam hay is banday par."
In India The legend Saurav Gaguly is God of off side but Lara is non the less, legends are born ounces in a century & he is one of them
The best I have seen as I never saw sunny, Viv and Don live.
The greatest innings i have ever seen in my life..... The best batsman i have seen ...👌👌👌
Yes
Brian Lara is the greatest batsman of all time with no doubt and the greatest innings of all time and one of the greatest cricket series ever. Non can compare to the great Brian Charles Lara .
Donald Bradman?
peter nicholson bradman is not greater than Lara or Sachin he only play 44 test matches so nobody should predict that he would of continue on that path I see lots of batsman get good starts to there careers and end up on a low example dwayne Smith he score century on dabute against south Africa very good bowling attacks.and everyone was saying that he is a player for the future and it did not happened his career ended very early without a next test century...next is Hamilton masachadza of Zimbabwe the youngest ever batsman to score a century on dabute and he too ended up desastrously so please stop saying bradman is the greatest when he is not that is just prediction my friend
Wow that's just factually inaccurate... he played 52 tests from 1928 to 1948 averaging 99.94.He was head and shoulders above all his contemporaries for nearly 20 years and nobody has even two-thirds of his average.Where are these lows you speak of?Be honest have you even heard of him before?
peter nicholson I have to talk about what I have seen and who I've seen play I have never seen bradman bat .and as far as I know the greatest set of bowlers came in Lara and sachins era bowlers like Donald and Pollock ,wash and Ambrose, McGrath,and Gillespie,wasim ,and waquor, chamida vaas.shrinath.kumble, warne,murillitharan,mushtaq.shoab ahktar and all those guys...who where the bowlers in bradmans era which great bowlers he faced.
Larwood Voce Bowes Verity were pretty good.It was you who said 'greatest batsman of ALL TIME no doubt'.If you had said in your time and I know nothing of earlier eras fair enough.
Lara was a genius. To get the scores he did and have the career stats he did in a poor windies side was remarkable. My favourite batsman ever
To me, this is the number one moment that i've seen. By far the best.
I am a huge brain lara fan. Let me get that straight out. I think he is better than sachin in tests. However, i would like to point out hypocrisy of some of kohli haters. When kohli scored 149 at Edgbaston and two catches were dropped, they kept on mentioning about the dropped catches. Here in this innings, lara also got dropped by healy and the match would have been over. Steve smith got dropped 4 times when he scored hundred at Pune turner in 2016 but it was rated the best innings of 2016 by espncricinfo experts. Have some consistency folks.
Abhinandhan Raghu Lara with all due respect is one of my favorites. *Most attractive batsman ever* But he prospered mainly on home tracks.
Lara had 6 single digit scores in 11 test innings in Newzealand.
Lara had 4 fifty+ scores in Australia when Mcgrath was playing out of 27 test innings. This included 10 single digit scores having 3 ducks.
@@Aman-nk5uq Yeah that is true. Sachin is a more complete player and statistically the greatest after Bradman. The only reason I rate Lara slightly higher than Sachin is in his ability to score runs quickly and change the course of the game by playing his natural game no matter what. Sachin on the other hand, gets into a shell 5 overs before lunch and tea and end of days play and lost his wicket many times becuase of that. But i agree with your point that Sachin has performed outside home conditions better than Lara.
@@abhinandhanraghu3447 SIR Lord Henry mortimer because Manish Pandey is better than Brian Lara because Manish Pandey scored an unbeaten century against Australia in Australia in Sydney (SCG).
Abhinandhan Raghu this guy is genius 😂 i have seen this guy trolling in the same manner on bollywood videos too. He said Arjun Rampal is better than Dilip kumar because he has got a national award unlike Dilip Kumar 😂😂
Are you comparing a shit Pune pitch to a good batting pitch like edgbaston
Amazing story telling..!! Literally got goosbumps throughout the video❤
The best innings I ever saw. Brain Charles lara the greatest I've ever seen👐👐👐👐
Sachin was technically a better batsman but he lacked the mental toughness to finish the game and cleverness of lara to save his,wicket from best bowlers of opposition.that makes lara greatest batsman of his era.
How's sashin more technical than Lara please tell me
@@patrickcummings4795 I wanna know too.... lol
@@patrickcummings4795 😂😂
Sachin lacked mental toughness? You kidding? Go watch his 241 at Sidney where he didn't play cover drive for his whole inning. Even in his first test at 16, he got hit by waqars bouncer and he still played. At age of 16, isn't this mental toughness?
Lara definitely had more temperament than Sachin in crack moments. Sachin was amazing too.
I listened to almost all of this innings on radio (unfortunately this series wasn't broadcast on free to air tv in Australia like 91 and 95). So Lara scored 153 without getting out out while six of his partners got out around him plus the one who didn't all contributing 80 between them minus whatever extras were scored while Lara was at the crease (possibly as many as 20 odd given 28 in whole innings and the score quadrupled from when Lara went to the crease to when victory was achieved).
We have seen something like that in the ashes today, another left hander another great matching winning innings, another great 11th wicket partnership with a very stubborn number 11, I didn't see Lara's 153, I can say I did see Stokes 135 against the Aussies......
....and the 153* from Kusal Perera against South Africa. It is also an a 10 wicket partnership.
Danny's Cover I saw both innings. They’re both magnificent innings but Lara, oh yes, Brian Charles Lara, he went into a den of pure gigantic hungry lions and escaped hurting them. The man is fearless despite what or who he’s up against.
Most beautiful innings I watched
How about including some of the footage from that innings?
Copyrights.
Robelinda has it
What a Match!
Lara is the gratest
The best ever,many greats play the game but Lara the Greatest Batsman ever
Without a doubt the best of all times bc Lara concentration mentally tough batting skills ect 501 runs who does that 400 nto plus triple centuries and makes runs on any pitch against any bowling attacks have been watching these guys most of sachin runs are made on perfect batting pitch against lesser attacks
Dude Sachin averages 50 in South Africa,New Zealand, England and Australia combined....20 of his 100 centuries have come against the best team of his time (Australia).He scored centuries in Perth,Sydney and Manchester as a teenager....FFS do you research.Just bcoz he is an Indian does not mean he did not score overseas.
Watching that match as a live innings, i felt pure happiness just to see walsh on the other end and despite that winning that match !!!!!
Great Batsmen of all time Brain Charles Lara
Just a kind message to some people who presume Indians praise only the Indian players -
Who told you Indians don't applaud other good players???
I'm an (Indian and) ardent fan of full team of Australia, NZ, West Indies, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan (and somewhat Zimbabwe also) of late 1990s and early 2000s. My comment won't end if I start naming favorites. Here are few of which I can recall right now -
AUS : Gilchrist, Ponting, Waugh brothers, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Bevan, Lehmann, Warne, Bichel, Gillespie, Lee, McGrath and many more
NZ : Richardson, Cairns, Harris, Styris, Astle, Vincent, Fleming, Macmillan, Parore, McCullum, Oram, Bond, Tuffey, Vettori, Nash and many more
SA : Kirsten, Gibbs, Kallis, Cullinan, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Smith, De Villiers, Boje, Pollock, Donald, Ntini and many more
Eng : Knight, Trescothick, Atherton, Ramprakash, Hussain, Butcher, Vaughan, Stewart, Thorpe, Crawley, Cork, Caddick, Hoggard, Gough, Giles, Mullally, Holliake brothers, Flintoff, Cook, Strauss, Pietersen and many more
WI : Sherwin Campbell, Hinds, Gayle, Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Lara, Hooper, Adams, Samuels, Jacobs, Ambrose, Walsh, Naagamootoo and lots more (obviously including the legendary WI team of '70s and '80s)
Pak : Anwar, Sohail, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam, Afridi, Imran Nazir, Youhana, Younis Khan, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Saqlain, Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Azhar Mahmood, Elahi, Butt, Shoaib Malik and many more (including Abdul Qadir, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Rameez Raja and several others)
SL : Jayasuriya, Kaluwitharna, De Silva, Ranatunga, Mahanama, Arnold, Atapattu, Sanga, Jayawardene, Dilshan, Chandana, Samaraveera, Vaas, Muralitharan, Fernando and many more
Also many Zimbabwe players like Flower brothers, Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Guy Whittall, Paul Strang, Henry Olonga, Heath Streak, Taibu, Blignaut, Sean Ervine and many others are my favorite, along with Bangladesh players like Ashraful, Kapali, Rafique, Tapash Baisya and nowadays players like Shakib, Mushfiqur, Mustafizur, Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar etc.
NOTE :
I have written all these names right now based on my memory in one go, so kindly don't doubt that I've merely copied from somewhere. I have genuinely watched and loved all these players' matches hence I remember them.
Thank you so much.
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He was the old king of cricket and managed his team to win some matches.
here in Trinidad ..we all remember that nail bitting test match.. by that time lara was already a superstar . and yet again prove why he was the most photographed human on the planet.. even more than princess diana ... how proud he made us felt to be Trinidadian .... we had expected darren bravo to take his place in flare and that special placment and timing but .. he gave us a few knocks but could never fill the masters shoes that because his brother already made the family rich and he is a spoil .brate mouthin off the wrong people .. well played sir Brain Charles Lara... you will always be our prince... lash them lara ... licks like peas.. he was bowlers nightmare.. poor guys couldt sleep once lara was still to bat.. ask shane warne ... the guy was susking crying after the games he played against Lara... lets keep our eyes on nickolas pooran.. just maybe who knows..
Always felt bad for lara. He didn't get the support from anywhere in that team at that time. He had some great players in his team here and there like walsh, ambrose, chanderpaul, sarawan, gayle(during lara's end years)
But they never quite clicked altogether. Atleast he won champions trophy with WI
Those were days when each and every team had "BOWLERS".Akram,wakar,akhtar,saqlain,Shane warne, McGrath, Pollock,Donald, Ambrose,Walsh,chaminda and the list continue. Tendulkar and Lara both dominated that era which makes them great.
how r you?
3 years later I'm asking😅
A true legend Sir Lara
Hope you'll add the "Gabba - magic" soon in this Playlist as well the whole series. 😉
The Gabba one is one the best test cricket in recent history
One of the best of all time. With all the centuries to his name but this is by far the best, esp against the bowling attack
I watched live at 4AM, couldn't have been more happier with the finish.
If u think u know anything about cricket u should know and acknowledge this is one of the GREATEST test innings of all time...the situation of the match..the weakness of windows fregile tell order the aggressions of tht time australiam team...the pich condition the way he play with Australian field position everything combine make this innings greatest of all time ...he was a pure GENIUS...and he show why...I do not compare him with any one of his era or current era...but trust me...this man was MAD genius .. unfortunately he start carrear at time when windows cricket start to going down hill ND through out his entire carrier he have company of few ordinary cricketer only exception chandarpaul; Hooper and sarwan..which minimize his opportunity to score some more run and thrush some more position ...hats of to u PRINCE OF TRINIDAD...
This inning by Lara and the recent almost carbon copy inning by Kusal Perera against South Africa are not only great moments in cricket but also great moments in humanity.
Don't underestimate Lara's 213 and 153n.o.
It's not just showing up to bat.
The pressure on him during those Games was tremendous- whitewash by SouthAfrica, verge of being Fired for good by WICB, all out for 51 in the 1st Test in Trinidad (which was shameful& on all newspapers frontpage in trinidad & Caribbean) and with a weakened inconsistent side, hostile Jamaica crowd.
His 213 innings was better than his 153 n.o.
No other player had to deal with all that baggage and produce that level of magic Lara did.
It is Not better than Lara's innings
wow, in the first episode they dandy forgot to mentioned that the Warne delivered the "ball of the Century" but in this episode they clearly forget to mention that this 153* inning is the "Second Best Inning" in the "History of cricket" point to be noted, ball of the century means from 1900 to 1999! but "second best inning of the history means from 1880 or even eriler!
Prince of Trinidad
" The most number eleven of number elevens". Unkind, harsh, true.
Also, "The Prince of Port of Spain" not "The Prince of Trinidad"
Hes from trinidad. Dumb
I'm from Trinidad asshole and the nickname is The Prince of Port of Spain, not The Prince of Trinidad. I'm not asking you I'm telling you.
Port of Spain is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Isn't it?
@@biswadeepbhattacharjee9123 exactly, normally a prince belongs to a state not a capital. Prince of Trinidad and Tobago it is.
Ok Rukani, have it your way. I don't know what I'm talking about. Are you from India? The crown jewel of the British Empire?
You can't simply match the elegance of a Lara Square cut...
That was most great inning number one inning of that I see in my life I am great fan of westindies cricket and Brian Lara Richie Richardson and class Carl Hooper Ambrose Walsh and more great caribean players
I was there! Goosebumbs all the way....
That t shirt tho Gideon 😂
I saw this innings live. The pressure on Brian Lara outside the field and in the field was just ginormous .. This innings just ranks above anything anyone had scored in the last 30 years. Yeah Sachin included. But don’t forget Glenn McGrath.. he bowled literally non stop from 10 overs before tea till the end of the match. Quite simply the clash of the titans..
Eh......not so much Clash of the Titans. Titans would suggest both sides were evenly matched. The Australia side that came to the Caribbean in 1999 was one of the greatest test outfits in the history of the sport. I remember Sachin said all the other cricketers, even though they hated the way they played the game, were really very envious of having a side that good. On the other side, the WI was careening down to the bottom of cricket where it now resides. Four of the batsmen in the series played 8 tests between them. It was the last gasp of WI greatness, true greatness in test cricket. And if you watch the series, the protagonists for the WI were all part of the golden generation, at least the end of it: Walsh, Curtly, Lara, Adams.
@@juanestadian8471 My reference to clash of titans was Lara vs McGrath. I guess you missed the context of the sentences and just took it literally!
@@sammyvideos oh sorry....yeah then it was
Can you please add some video of the game instead of some still photos?
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@@simply2ghetto thanks mate.
One of the best innings of Brian lara
Would love to see how Rahane's 112 against Australia at MCG changed cricket
Greatest test innings in the history of cricket!
Greatest Ever Batsman in the world. #BrianLara
Just the best
Thank god that we can hear mark nicholas 😅
why ? don't you like Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan? :D
lara record agaist assie ...extraordinary..
My mom told me that brian was her good friend, she said she would go out to dinner with her friend, brian and her all the time. she once went to dinner over at his house, and his whole team was there, she said they were super tall and had great body structure. brian would always call my mom madam, and everytime she was out with him, paparazzi would be eveywhere
Came here after 135 of Ben Stokes
From 3:23 you know what a man he was
It was the greatest innings ever played. Ben Stokes also played a great innings, nearly as good as Lara's, but the opposition bowlers - Pattinson, Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon were a shade below those Lara faced - McGrath (547 Test wickets), Gillespie (259 Test wickets), Shane Warne (708 Test wickets) and Stuart McGill (208 Test wickets).
Those last comments by David hookes was pretty sentimental I reckon. You won't forget that
King Lara, God batting with left hand
Real gem was his 688 runs in 3 tests against Sri Lanka.
Oh holy !
mark Nicholas is audible
The Legend..
Here because of Ben Stokes. Lara, legend. Stokes, emerging great, if not already!
Do one on Adam Gilchrist's 149* vs Pakistan. Pretty much Revolutionised cricket. Infact, do all of the Adam Gilchrist 100s.
Your neighborhood friend . What did it revolutionized??
@@TheTredoc It revolutionized the perception of a wicketkeeper batsman.
@@DC-zi6se No, Andy Flower did that long before. His 232* in Nagpur was quite influential.
Test CRICKET is real cricket and real test for cricketers
Is anyone here after Kusal Perera's 153* against South Africa which led his team to a remarkable 1 wicket victory?
Perera's 153 was almost as good as Lara's, if not better.
Although Pereras knock wasn’t against the greatest bowler ever and a top five seamer of all time.
Thank god this one has a sound audio voice of Mark Nicholas
What a great batsman. He would've absolutely nailed T20.
Greatest......Ever
The "Prince Of Trinidad" Was Back On His Throne.....
He is one of the greatest if not the greatest . We should appreciate what he did for the game . remember the name brain Charles Lara.
I can't forget Courtney Walsh in the penultimate over..his nervousness to save the match was hilarious!!
Best batting display by walsh
It was the greatest innings among the greatest....lara the true prince
Tony Grieg “What a player”
He was a great batsman, no doubt.
Sachin or Kohli never ever played any innings like this. Brian Lara the greatest batsman in the world ever.
Mark Nicholas ..the voice of EA 07 cricket
Greatest innings of all time.
Lara 401 not out only player to get a 4 hundred
It’s only the commentary of Lara’s inning. I was hoping for the video clip.
He was the most gifted batsman in history of cricket
It's one of the innings which increased the value of TEST CRICKET. Now a days wherever you see people talk about T20, IPL so many matches. This period of CORONA no cricket at all. Only way to see now is what done in past. What might come future. It's evergreen innings for all his Fan's..
Greatest innings by arguably the greatest batsman of them all ... Masterpiece... it was literally like - "McGrath, Warne, Gillespie.. fuck off.. i am not getting out even if God himself is on your side.." ...
World Cricket needs a strong West Indies Cricket & will always need it.
Still the best!!!
Only 2 people could have done that against McGrath, warne and gillispie as bowlers , steve Waugh as captain , ponting, Langer etc as fielder's and specially on the fifth day batting track . One was Sachin and second one was Lara. To Australians misfortune it was one of these two at the crease
Genius
janardhana reddy salute ur daddy. U wont be anyday near him. U are just a run muncher. This guy had the greatest strokeplay
Aman whats wrong man
janardhana reddy i am asking Kohli to salute his daddy
Aman yup.
Aman we may not see a player like Lara again. A champion player.