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No one since Bradman built massive scores as often and as fast as Brian Lara in his pomp, and with such elegance. Even his stance was thrilling - the bat raised high in the air, the weight poised on a bent front knee, the eyes low and level. Then the guillotine would fall, sending the ball flashing to the boundary. The tenth of 11 children, Lara played for Trinidad's junior football and table tennis sides, but it was cricket that really drew him.
In , at 20, he became Trinidad and Tobago's youngest captain, and that year, he also made his Test debut, scoring 44 and 6 against Pakistan. In the space of two months in , Lara's and not out broke world records for the highest Test and first-class scores, but sudden fame seemed to turn him into a confused and contradictory figure.
During an inventive but largely fruitless spell as captain of a fading West Indies team, Lara reiterated his genius by single-handedly defying the Australian tourists with a sequence of , 8, not out and For a while, excess weight and hamstring problems hampered his once-lightning footwork, and the torrent of runs became an occasional spurt.
The task proved as hard the second time round, leading a side where he was far and away the best player and where discipline was a constant worry. He led them to defeat for a second time in South Africa in , and then lost to England in the Caribbean. But then, just when all hope seemed to have deserted West Indies cricket, Lara responded to the prospect of a home series whitewash with an astonishing unbeaten in the final Test against England in Antigua in In doing so, he became the first man to reclaim the world Test batting record.
