Brian Lara, West Indies - Player profile

Brian Lara’s one of the best batsmen there’s ever been. Whoever you are, you must know that. He’s twice broken the record for the highest Test score, 375 and the current highest, 400. He’s the holder of the highest first-class score, 501. He’s also scored more runs than anyone in the history of Test cricket – a million or something like that.

You’ll be able to spot him in action by the enormous back lift and the way the ball travels to the boundary in the blink of an eye – it’s like someone’s fired a dark red laser gun. What do you call the equivalent of a bullet from a laser gun? It’s technically a laser, but that conjures up the image of a solid beam. We’re on about the small segments of laser you get in Star Wars and stuff. Anyway, that’s what the ball looks like when Brian Lara smashes it to the cover boundary.

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