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The Prince of the Port of Spain
Trinidadian international cricketer
West Indies cricket
World record Test innings
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- ISBN 9781915237408
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Trinorth Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The true
untouchables of sport possess a kind of mystery, and Lara – thrillseeker, record holder, genius – stands as perhaps
cricket’s deepest enigma, at once a beautifully free strokemaker whose creativity captured an era, and an often tortured
presence at the heart of a faltering West Indies side as the great teams of the past faded from view.
He saved his best work for England. His two world-record Test innings both came against them, ten years apart. His
otherworldly 501*, the highest score in cricket history, took place in Birmingham. Even his final game for the West
Indies came against England.
He understood what was at stake, what he stood for. Lara saw himself as a torchbearer for generations of revolutionary
cricketers from the Caribbean stretching back through the ages, their deeds reilluminated with flashes of his own. It
was against this backdrop that Lara produced some of the most extraordinary batting ever seen on the cricket field.
“I could always feel those moments in my bones,” he writes. “When our prowess on the cricket field was used to help
in the fight for independence from our colonial masters.”
Thirty years since his first world record, and twenty since he reclaimed it with Test cricket’s only quadruple century,
Lara is ready to tell his own story: the incomparable highs and harrowing lows of a life lived on the edge.
Brian Lara is one of cricket’s greatest players. Holder of the world record for the highest Test score
and the only player in history to breach the 500-run mark in a first-class innings, the left-hander bestrode the game
in the years either side of the millennium. Since retirement he has turned his hand to commentary and coaching –
taking charge of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL – and set up the Bunty and Pearl Foundation, a charity in memory
of his parents that aims to tackle health and social care issues primarily in his native Trinidad. This is his first fully
co-authored book.
