One of the finest careers...LARA

Brian Charles Lara is and forever will be one of the finest and greatest batsmen of all time. His innings of 153 can go down as the best innings ever in the history of cricket. Beating Australia those days would just be a dream for West Indians with their team crumbling match after match. If we look at the top 10 batsmen no one would come close in providing an innings like that. He made his debut when West Indies was loosing it's glory, he was there when they lost it and ended his career when it is gaining back. With such a lacklustre team he made sure no team would take WI as another minnows. Before leaving he has put his team in a position to atleast reach the Super Eights not possible by the subcontinent teams. Over the years his responsibility has been taken over by the likes of Gayle, Sarwan, Samuels. Their team now looks just like the Indian team which always had Sachin but now they are dependent on others like Sourav, Rahul, Yuvraj. You can be assured a flood of runs is on the way when he gets his backlift right. It is not his technique nor the great innings he played but the class, flair and style that has brought him so many admirers. Arguably the only player who had such a flair and success. Vivian Richards was more of powerful kind and not stylish. His scores of 277, 365, 153, 213, 400 would be forever remembered by everyone and more by the Australians and English