Brian Lara
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"Brian Charles Lara", Trinity Cross/TC, Order of the Caribbean Community/OCC, Honorary Member of the Order of Australia/AM is a former West Indies cricket team/West Indian international cricket player. He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all-time. He topped the Test cricket/Test batting LG ICC cricket ratings/rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire County Cricket Club/Warwickshire against Durham County Cricket Club/Durham at Edgbaston Cricket Ground/Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004. He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career. Lara also shares the test record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003 (George Bailey (cricketer)/George Bailey achieved this in 2013 against England off of the bowling of James Anderson (cricketer)/James Anderson).

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I can remember the last two series vividly - South Africa's home series here and the one in the West Indies.

I knew that he had asked for me and I have looked forward to this moment.

We had some great individual performances but one of the things we learnt from the English is how to put a game together. They played as a team for the whole five days all series.

We have to be hopeful that things can improve. It is pretty embarrassing the state that West Indies cricket is in at the moment. We can't put out our best team. At the end of the day, everybody is losing.

We spoke about his love for cricket and what cricket does to influence the world.

This is one of the greatest days of my life.

Today he smiled when he referred to my first century there.

As our national anthem played before the match, I looked up and saw him. I knew I was part of a great occasion.

Spinning is definitely an option.