Brian Lara 277 v Australia (Pt 2 of 4 )

Brian Laras 1st test century
SCG vs Australia - early 1990's

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Sports

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• cricket
• west
• indies
• australia
• india
• pakistan
• england
• brian
• lara
• sachin
• tendulkar

[gynotikolobomass]

I love cricket and most of all I love India. However, as both Lara and Sachin will be forever immortalised as legends of the game, there is no real reason to compare them. They are legends, and are champions of cricket for the modern era. Why not just sit back and be entertained :)

And how young does Warney look in this clip! Haha! Look at his hair!

[rippa86]

i dont agree with you both of you. Lara had to hold the west indies battling line up for years dont tell me there is no pressure being so heavily relied on to make runs.

Both Lara and Tandulker will be remembered as legends of the game END OF STORY

[dbor009]

Lara was a very audacious player, high backlift followed by a drop of the blade. You bring in someone like a Mark Waugh, David Gower or Martin Crowe and these players are more technically correct. However Lara had a hunger for runs unlike many batsmen and it was exciting watching him get them. Though Crowe had the superior first class record of all these batsmen, even Lara, he couldn't quite emulate it in test cricket.  Graeme Hick was a perfect example of that.

[tony5486zo54l]

they seemed so fast because speed is always relative. Protective equipments batsmen height reaction time have improved as happens in all sports. And btw viv averaged 44 against aus and 40 against pak.

[tony5486zo54l]

jeff was very fast but as bbc profile of him says was erratic and did not used his wrist much and so generated little seam or swing.sounds a lot like tait. Lillee was lively and very skillful but do not forget he was just 5 11 . He will hardly be a great bowler today.

[tony5486zo54l]

btw in a study done ay wa uni in 79 lillee clocked fastest at 137.ditto gmran. Holding mid 140 only jedd cleared 150 marginally. Admittedly it was after lillees injury but viv faced lillee mostly after the injury.

[tony5486zo54l]

@myrsd01 watch ur tongue. You see the videos of viv richards right here in youtube. Brisbane adelaide u name it. Ball never seem to bounce above chest height. Old stories ball almost carrying to boundary is a myth. Such things happen because of cracks on the pitch. I have seen a ball easily clearing the inner ring a ball bowled by salil ankola a medium pacer from india in a slow delhi pitch.

[ashokatibrewal]

lara himself has admitted tendulkar was better.lara said tendulkar was a genius and he a mere mortal. And his fans think he is better than tendulkar. So maybe u know more about lara game than he himself even.though thatsshis job. so that makes him an idiot. So folks enjoy video of the best retarded batsman in history of the game.

[ashokatibrewal]

@onoeoner. you have not seen anyone bat better than that? check out tendulkars innings 1992 against australia at the s.c.g. you cannot get more similar conditions.same pitch,ground bowlers. check his back foor drives and then say whose are better? lara is no doubt genius bu he pales before sachin.

[ashokatibrewal]

@mrsys- you little parrot-swayed by old fogeys. protective gear does not make you play better.its not possible.they only add weight to your body probably hampering your stroke play.yes i protects you.thats it. like sof lillee and thommo-myths and loads of myths. lillee and thommo would be pretty average today.and thats no surprise or demeaning.athletes keep on improving in all sports. likes of thommo these days are thrashed around. consider like of tait or nantie hayward in early 2000.

[heymask]

@mrsyd01 Please understand that I love and admire sir Viv but since you brought the helmet up I have this question...Why did sir Viv wear pads and gloves and center point guards...safety is very impotant...thats why.. not because he is afraid...