Talk:Brian Lara

Childhood friendship with Dwight Yorke

I have never heard any mention of Lara and Yorke being childhood friends. More importantly, it seems implausible to me - Lara was from Santa Cruz, and later lived with Joey Carew in Port of Spain. Yorke grew up in Tobago. They grew up geographically and socially distint. Guettarda 00:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Dwight and Brian are indeed very close friends and renowned party animals when they get together, but it was their fame as West Indian sporting idols which brought them together, not as childhood friends. Cheers, Steve.

"the leading batsman of the modern era is no doubt B.C.LARA"

Lara is the grtest batsman of the century he is not just a batsman, but an artist who can play 360 degree on the feild.

Sachin Tendulkar would be the best in Technique, but BRIAN CHARLES LARA is the architect of cricket, his bat lift charms everyone and he perfectly designs his shots , and chops the ball any where he wants.

Thats one thing which i think Sachin Tendulkar lacks behind, and he dont have the charishma of batting

My passion!! Brain Lara

Dear Brain Lara,

I am Mithu.I am 29 years old. I am your fan.I support West Indies only for you. You are my favourite player,my passion. I live in Bangladesh. My dream is to make handshake with you.I want to meet with You. But how can it possible.

If you reply me by E-mail, I will be grateful to you. I am waiting for your response.

Thanks and best regards

MITHU

Well I hope you get to meet him someday Mithu! I'm not sure if Lara's a wikipedian (but you never know I guess). By the way, another user removed your email address so that you won't be inundated with spam. Lisiate 00:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Mithu, why don't you go to Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival in February 2007? Lara goes every year I think. And although I don't want to be mean I should also tell you that you can do better dream-wise than meeting that particular gentleman. But hey, go to Trinidad where he'll be jumping around in the streets for two days, then come back and tell us what you think of him.

Bowling

Well, I thought it was classed as "Left Arm Leg Break" but really the only information I had to go on this was Brian Lara International Cricket 2005. I think Cricinfo just classes it as "Legbreak" but someone said he bowls right armed. Does anybody know? Speedboy Salesman | ^{talk page} 12:09, 07 September 2006 (UTC)

A left arm leg break is known as left-arm orthodox spin (well, at least it turns in the same way as a leg break), and I think Cricinfo would have said left arm if they knew he bowled left arm. Don't know for sure, though, have never seen him bowl Sam Vimes | Address me 11:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I've never seen him bowl either. But I hate the vague "leg break" that is used on cricinfo.. Speedboy Salesman | ^{talk page} 15:49, 09 September 2006 (UTC)

Playfair Cricket Annual has him as LB, which means he bowls right-arm wrist-spin. If he bowled left-handed, he would be either SLA ("slow left-arm") if a finger-spinner, or SLC ("slow left-arm chinamen") if a wrist-spinner. JH 21:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Article out of date and littered with typos

I'm going to start trying to overhaul this article. Other editors are warmly welcomed if they wish to help out. --Dweller 08:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, it's a right mess. It's one of those where someone is so famous you assume that someone will have looked after the article, they clearly haven't. There are whole chunks that need a decent re-write, they've been edited quite a lot and just look clunky. I note there's nothing about his career outside of The West Indian national team, he's played for Warwickshire for a while etc --Gavinio 09:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Ambiguous sentence

I found this sentence in the article "1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when he broke the West Indies youth batting record." and it is ambiguous - which record did he break? I'm tempted to delete it, but instead will {{fact}} flag it, in the hope that might stir someone to clean it up. --Dweller 09:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Article Length

This article is a bit long (we seem to be tidying it up though!). Does anyone else think that the man of the match awards table is a bit superfluous? --Gavinio 14:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think it's unnecessary, although I did find it mildly interesting. It always seems a shame though, to delete content that's clearly been lovingly worked on. --Dweller 14:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly - could we integrate the MOM awards into the hundreds table (eg to mark where he was also man of the match) or have a look at Sachin Tendulkar's page where only notable MOM awards are included. The trouble with that is that it's subjective. Would some of Lara's stats be worth a separate article? This would enable us to substantially trim this article, whilst not deleting content. --Gavinio 16:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Can anyone contribute a picture/s of Brian Lara

Please, can anyone put a picture/s of this great man that does not violate copyright issues? Brian Lara Wikipedia page requires pictures of him -- a portrait image and some cricketing images. Thanks 130.194.5.130 00:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

We'd love to, but it's difficult to get hold of freely-licensed images. Usually it needs someone to take a photo at a match. Stephen Turner (Talk) 05:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Editing conflict

Trying to remove text copied from BBC Website Commentary, editing conflict made a bit of mess of the page. Waiting out your edits. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Feelfreetoblameme (talk • contribs) 03:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC).