Just How Good Was Brian Lara, Actually? | The Greatest Ever?
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Just How Good Was Brian Lara, Actually? | The Greatest Ever?
Brian Lara was considered as one of the best cricketers in his generation and regarded by quite a few as the greatest batsman of all time. This legend from the West Indies dominated the cricket world for over 15 years. Bowlers like Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan regarded him as the toughest opponent. But exactly how good was he and how does he compare to other legends and all time greats? Watch till the end to find out and dive deep into the career of Brian Lara.
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Who do guys think is better, Sachin Tendulkar or Brian Lara?
Afcourse b.lara is better he match finish one hand.153 not out against aus 1999
Brian lara for sure.
Excited batsman.
His timing was exceptional.
Brian Lara
I think Bryan bec snatchin plays on more flat wicket more than bryan
No comparison in Tests. Lara by a mile
My countryman
What made lara so awesome was the element of daring and risk about his batting..
To average as much as he did, against the bowlers that he did, world record scores
So privileged to have been witness to this career....
One of the best
To score 277 against Australia in Australia in 1992/93 at the age of 23 is just mind blowing. No visiting batsman at such young age has ever done it. That innings just sums it up as the greatest batsman and was already a legend by then.
Yess
I am west Indian only man to score 400 in a single innings. My favorite of all times. BCL!!!
And he was run out too. That's the only way they could have got him out. Who knows, he might otherwise have been the first and only one to score two quadraples and three triples...
Sachin scored 100 in perth at the age of 17 years, no one has done that also. There is no choosing between both. Both are at the same pedesial. Sachin's career was in a rising imdian team, lara's was in delining west indian team. Sachin peaked earlier at the age of only 26 after that he stopped being aggressive. lara played same his whole career and was more dangerous, sachin was more consistent;lara was aggressive, sachin was like a cow. Lara was the better batsman of spin, sachin was better at playing pace and swing,
Agreed, and 9 Test double 💯, unheard and may never be equaled in our lifetime. The greatest of them all, probably.
Tendulkar developed his techniques over the years and got better while Lara was naturally gifted and talented player. If you compare early years of cricket for Lara and Sachin, lara was way ahead. Then Tendulkar got slightly ahead of lara in the middle of their careers and in the end of their careers lara was again ahead of sachin. Both are great players but I love to watch lara batting.
Never seen Brian Lara live but all of the videos I watch with him is awesome. He is one of the great batman who plays cricket.
One of the best 💯
You missed a treat..
Not just the runs..
You had to be in the moment to understand
Bro you missed a treat, I didn't want to go to school, sit up all night too if I of to
Grew up in the days of Brian Lara. The epic entertainer,batting maestro. A true hero of Windies Cricket!
Lara was a genius with the bat. He played the game with flare and flamboyance. He was a match winner who never made a ugly hundred. He was an entertainer who changed the face of cricket. The guy was head and shoulder above all. Ask McGrath and Murali
Shane Warne too
Totally agree
Sachin, Ricky and others played with the peace of mind that comes with an all-round team. Lara did not have such luxury. However, Lara did so much better. He outscored Sachin and the others. Sachin took three years after Lara retired to equal Lara score. Lara a legend of all time. Salute to the prince.
Which score to Sachin takes three years 😂😂
@@rkJaat-lv6wftill both were playing lara was ahead in both odi and tests sachin beat him in 2011 by the time lara was retired for 3 years
Absolutely wrong information SACHIN TENDULKAR HAS 35000 INTERNATIONAL RUNS AGAINST THE BEST BALLING LINE UPS IN THE WORLD MUCH MORE THAN LARA.LARA HAS HIMSELF TOLD SACHIN IS GENIUS.SO THERE IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN LARA AND SACHIN.SACHIN IS FAR MORE AHEAD THAN LARA IN EVERY ASPECT OF THE GAME
No one like this legendary Batsman of all times...
Sir Brian Charles Lara..... Cricket World Salutes him.... One and only Brian Lara 🌹👍
One of the best🔥
Lara, his ability to score big and against the best in the world was unmatched.
Brian Lara is an Artist when all others are mere Workers only... 👍
Lara is the best batsman I have ever seen. I watched every ball in SL vs WI series this was against prime Murali. No one could bat against Murali (even Sachin was average against him) but Lara didn’t get beaten even for the whole series. It was like bowling to a machine no has ever played Murali like Lara did.
Murali himself said, virender sehwag played him better than anyone even better than lara, and sachin was the only batsman who read him.
Have u ever seen Sir Gary Sobers 250 against Austraila in 1971? Against a prime and fearsome Dennis Lee. I've never seen faster bowling in my lifetime. The late Sir Donald Bradam said it was the greatest knock he had seen. He saw plenty for sure....
This isn't true. Murali has said numerous times that Lara is the best batsman he has ever bowled to. Murali rarely bowled to Sehwag in his prime it was only in the later part of his career in a couple of flat pitches that Sehwag had better of him. Sachin was AVERAGE against Murali everyone who watches cricket knows that many players played Murali better than Sachin did. Dravid for example was much better against Murali than Sachin@@KKpandita88
No, I wasn't born back then! The thing with Lara was that it was 6 inns straight when others couldn't get the bat on the ball. WI lost every match by an inns or massive margins but Lara scored in every inns without even getting beaten @@Learie.
Who told u SACHIN WAS AVERAGE AGAINST MURALI.SACHIN FIRST GOT OUT TO MURALI AFTER 7 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.MURALI HIMSELF HAS ADMITTEF SACHIN IS THE BEST BATSMAN HE HAS BOWLED TO
Prince Brian Charles Lara is the best ever to touch a bat. The way he dealt with the best bowlers of all time is amazing 🎉🎉🎉
Brian Lara is a wonderful, wonderful batsman to watch and is right up there with the best of the best. Stats alone cannot begin to rate how good a batsman he was. If one would recall there were lots of turmoil taking place in WI cricket during his career yet he possessed that nerve of steel and high levels of concentration to score tons and tons of runs. I shudder to think what could have been in more player friendly environment. So as for the debate which one of these players is the best it dependsof the "yard stick" used. However I would not venture to pick one over the other as they're in different class all by themselves. The both of them are so exciting to watch.
The thing about Brian Lara was,he truly entertained the crowd,even when he was playing a defensive stroke was awesome to watch,people who truly love cricket and know about batman ship will always choose Brian Lara as being the best batman the world has ever seen.
SACHIN TENDULKAR ENTERTAINED THE CRICKETING WORLD FOR THE FIRST 12 YEARS WHICH EVEN LARA CANNOT MATCH.HE ENTERTAINED THE 150 billion people with his dominant batting prowess against top bowlers even lara was not able to do that in the 90s what sachin did
Brian Lara is best cannot be compared by any one.
Brian Charles Lara, he was a great man, my favorite cricketers, I gave Brian the edge over Sachin Tendulkar, 3 reasons, 1, He scored highest first class runs 501 not out. Highest score in test 400,not out, finally he scored 9 Test Double centuries
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Lara honest cricket player
There were some phenomenal batsmen around during Lara’s time.. what set Lara apart, imo, was his ability to react to the situation of a game or to someone sledging him and just take control of it.. in that sense, he could impose himself on a game and change the flow like a fast bowler does when he gets angry or fires up for a brutal spell.. and once Lara got in that mode, it felt like the opposition was virtually powerless to do anything about it.. even those great Australian attacks were like side acts a couple of times when Lara decided it was all on his shoulders or when someone said something to piss him off.. not many, if any, other world class batsmen were in that same mould where they could just flick a switch and bully and demoralise a bowling side like Lara could
Lara was so beautiful to watch..when in form he plays all the shots in the game..
Brian was such a flambouyant batsman.Also the best player of spin.He was simply a true genius. What an entertainer!!.
exactly
Boom Boom Legend Brian Lara❤️
being an Indian ,i must confess that it was Brian Lara
Lara is a genius and his game looks fabulous and like a song…all time great
Very sincere and thoughtful review and tribute to Lara, as a Trinidadian and West-Indian, thank you
Glad you liked it😃
Nelson Mandela visited Trinidad once and ask: "where is Brian Lara?
Brian Lara is the greatest batsman of all time !!!
Brian has a test batting average of 52, that's not even in the top 10 of all time batting averages. Bradman had a test average of "99.9" per innings. Lara not even close to best ever. Laughable.
@NatureNomad61 Bradman did not have to face the types of quality fast bowling that entered the cricket arena from the 50s onwards. One fast bowler,Harold Larwood, cut his batting average in half,what do do think would have happened if Bradman had to confront 4 fast bowlers? He certainly would not have finalised career with 99.
SACHIN TENDULKAR IS THE GREATEST BATSMAN OF ALL TIME.HE HAS MORE MAN OF THE MATCHES IN THE 90S ERA THAN BRIAN LARA.LARA IS ALSO A GREAT BATSMAN.BUT SACHIN IS THE GREATEST.RECORD SPEAKS
Brian Charles Lara for certain!!!!
Lara's greatest match was in 1992/93 when he scored 277 runs. He was on track to breaking the record for the most runs in test cricket when he was unfortunately run out trying to sneak an impossible run. In that inning, he didn't give any chances. All shots were on the ground, through the gaps. This was incredible!
Brian Lara's foot work was like that of a ballet dancer, he danced to the pitch of the ball with consumate ease i have never seen a better mortal in test cricket.
Thanks very much for posting that, now I really hearing about Lara record, brilliant stuff
Simply the best.... Better than all the rest.
Brian c Lara simply the best
Brian Lara is the best there was and could ever be, simply the greatest ever.
I admire Sachin Tendulkar technIque and stroke production. His records might be broken but when in full flow his batting was delight to watch! WI batters are dynamic for sure but Ind batters captivate me with their elegance and class. So easy to the eye.. happy watching...
Gavasker was 1 million times a better batsman.Sasha was all hype... Just was a cut below Gary Sobers, Graham Pollock, Barry Richard's, Sunil Gavasker,Viv Richards, of course Lara was the king of.... .My brother played against him in the West Indian schoolboy tournament in 🇹🇹 Trinidad.And he was quite impressed at what he saw... His observation was correct.My brother was on the Jamaican School Boys cricket squad.
lara is the greatest, he made his runs off the best bowlers in history, nowadays bowlers is a joke
Yeah!
Bowling is good now, easiest decade is 2000's, look at all the batsmen averaging over 50.Very hard in 70's to 90's.I remember in the 70's 150 was regarded as a huge score,Randall's 174 at centenary test is pretty standard now.
It is impossible to choose one between Sachin and Brian Lara. Both were equally good.
Lara was more stylish and elegant. Statistically, Sachin is ahead
Nice video ❤
I stopped watching cricket after Prince retirement.
Love him
One of the greatest!
Lara is better because only the fact than he’s considered one of the best while playing on a losing team who always put the pressure on him. He did it alone and all his records are against first class teams
Best the world ever seen Brian Charles Lara
Lara hit the ball mercilessly.
Exactly
True Legendary Champion of Cricket Game . Prince of Cricket Brian Charles Lara
Lara was true legend.
He did not played for any individual records he played positive cricket all time in specialy whenever team was in critical situation.He hit sixes whenever he was close to century.
The prince he has made his mark on cricket we still remember him
yesss
He is the best player to me so smooth with the bat wow 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Greatest batsman in this living world imagine guys if he was born in india he would have become god
Yea, they would have stopped worshipping cows and goats and worshiped him.🎉
Lara was capable of playing anyone, anywhere, anytime. He dictated terms while at the crease. Everyone raves about his stroke play and elegance which is, of course, unparalleled. In my view, one of his greatest innings was against India at St. Lucia test in 2006. Lara was so restrainful and scored a slowest century in the 4th innings to force a draw from a near certain defeat. If one wants to witness Lara's concentration and his ultra defensive side, his batting in the 4th innings would put even Dravid to shame on a rank turning track. Nothing is more aesthetically pleasing to the sight than see Lara play a defensive stroke with a 360-degree backlift.
One of the best🔥
Lara had the deepest bag has a batsman:cover drive,on drive, late cut,coming down the ground,hook shot, pull shot,sweep shot,off the legs.
Greatest ever. Treat to watch 🎉❤
One of the best🔥
I'd much rather watch Lara, complete entertainer! He carried a nation on his own.
The greatest Test batsman that I have ever seen play.
Brain Charles Lara one of the best cricket &true legend he is a champion of cricket
This video takes me back in time. Lara was an awesome batsman.
One of the best of all time🔥
I love your compilation and the way you analyzed The greatest batsman of all time,you're spot on in your closing summary ,Lara is way Better than Sachin,entertaining too.
One is great right hander and the other great left hander but for me Viv is the best batter. See his videos without helmet he is batting next level shots what mind blowing strokes. Tests and ODIs he was goat in both formats. No body comes close to Viv. TechnIque wise Gavaskar was best opener as he needed to dig in against quality bowlers playing in an avg team but overall complete dominant game was Viv something else...
Lara was way better than Sachin. Sachin played with great players around him; while Lara was a lone rider, as he has lots of ordinary players with him. Bother are great, but Lara has the edge.
💯agreed Lara better than Sachin
You idiot you think Sarwan, hooper, Chanderpaul and many more were amateurs?
What a joke man westindies was a good team until 2000 or more Lara played with the likes of good players like chanderpaul, Sarwan, richie Richardson , westindies had some good players in between but without longevity , had good bowling attack where as india was weak in bowling .
Compare prime Sachin with prime Lara you will get your answer.
Sachin was downplayed , only after he started playing conservatively instead of attacking because of his back injury.
Brian Lara was from a planet where cricket was the pastime of the Gods. He was a special God. He performed miracles on demand.
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It’s difficult to choose between Lara and Tendulker both should share the number 1 spot. What I like a little more is that Lara can take complete control of a match when batting and guid the team to victory
I don't think it's even close, Brian Lara is the greatest batsman GOD has ever Created.
This man is the greatest ever live
I'll fix this debate.
Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest Right-Handed Batsman ever!
Brian Lara is the greatest Left-Handed Batsman ever!
End of debate.
Great video and research!
Thanks a lot!
To end the debate u guys must stop just comparing records , and look at the entertainment value and the impact Lara had on the world , the queen use to come n watch Lara , every great bowler feared Lara not tendulkar , the same with Micheal Jordan , even if Lebrun broke all his records , was he as entertaining, did he had such an impact on the world , Lara is the greatest batsman ever not just for his batting but his impact, his swag he is must see tv
@@davon3283ableVivian Richards the swagger dominated bowlers like no other
501 not out is a crazy stat!
One of the best player of Pace and Spin with equal ease.
Yes
LARA Greatest Batsman.The Genius.Frustrated every Bowler.Scored at his own will.I was privileged to watch him play .The Best
Yeah
My Favorite cricketers, and batsman, great man, I'm a west Indian, I like both cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, and Brian Charles Lara, However, i gave Brian the edge Over Sachin, reason is He scored more Double centuries,
In my opinion the greatest test batsman ever. For the most of his career he played in a team in misery. If not his average and the performances would have been much much better. Undoubtably the most lalented batsman I have seen. He is the finest artist when it comes to the art of battting. Can watch him for hours and hours . It never gets boring.
No one can bat as good as brian lara in test cricket
The absolute GOAT.
Brian Lara the best by a mile👏 The best ever🙌🏽
Yess
It's Lara
Tendulkar was more consistent but when you needed a big score and your backs against the wall batting with ambrose and walsh you needed Lara, also it was the way he did it, if I had to pay all my money to watch anyone bat it will always be Brian Lara stylist flamboyant and aggressive batting.
To me Brian Lara was the best batsman ever
West Indies players had no pressure on them, Indian players did. And one more thing Sachin never got to face weak Indian bowling attack and Lara never faced deadly West Indies bowling attack.
Also bowlers have more arsenal for right handers.
Both Murali and Warne had success against right handers.
Being a left handed batsman is an advantage in itself.
I rate Sachin higher.
Facts. Warne and Murali are leg spinners which are countered by left hand batsmen so Lara had an advantage vs them. Sachin was a right hand bat which is more impressive than Lara since he dominated everyone anyway.
Lara is Great 👍👍
True words sir...Lara is number one Cricket legend...don't compare Sachin with Lara , there are lots of player can replace Sachin ...But Lara s style and Match winning aggression is Tremendous...By an Indian Fan
NOBODY CAN REPLACE SACHIN.HE IA THE NO 1 BATSMAN OF ALL TIME.EVEN LARA CANNOT MATCH HIM.LARA WAS NOT ABLE TO DOMINATE THE INDIAN BOWLING LINE UP.SACHIN DOMINATED ALL THE BOWLING LINE UPS OF THE WORLD HAS MORE MAN OF THE MATCHES THAN BRIAN LARA.SACHIN WAS A BRUTAL FORCE IN 90S WHICH NOBODY CAN MATCH.RECORD SPEAKS THAT.HE HAS RULED THE CRICKETING WORLD FOR 24 YEARS WHICH NOBODY HAS DONE.
There's no comparison between Lara and anyone else, not even Sir Vivian Richards. Each player, like every individual on earth, is uniquely different. Tendulkar, has his own uniqueness
When we seek to compare people, someone gets short changed. Lara, having the extra pressure of carrying the team single handedly, must be considered. Yet he performed with such poise, ingenuity, brilliance, and courage. This has placed him in a league of his own.
Brian lara is the greatest
Lara was love child of a tradition that was fan boy of West Indian cricket. A great batsman indeed, but still protected by lesser scrutiny ,providing umbrella cover to his impact as a batsman.
Just take an example …
Lara hitting century against Australia in his home ground is considered one of the best. However, Sachin’s knocks in his home country are dismissed as subpar.
Whereas, in fact Lara was less successful while batting overseas. In Australia his average is 41 while Sachin is way ahead.
Similarly in England too his average is some 800 bp below Sachin.
But predisposition conquers rationality so good luck 😅
Coming out of Trinidad +Tobago H. I.M. Brian Charles Lara was the best we have ever seen.
In my opinion, the classiest stroke player was Gary Sobers; the most explosive hitter and most confident batsman was Sir Viv, and the rarest combination of stroke playing and century-making is B. C. Lara - and will put Sachin among them.
Lara the best lefthanded batsman the world has ever watch on a cricket field ...Who could also Bat right handed too.....
Brian Charles Lara.....played against him @ age 11. simply the greatest.
Great doc..
Brian Lara is one of the most superb batsman ever. His record will remain for a long time.
None stylish batsman than brain lara he was something else a treat to watch eye soothing
Always Brian Lara he is the greatest batsman world has ever seen.
Yeah
I totally believe that
This video simple shows you that Lara was by far the greatest batsman of all time .
Apart from the fact that his average was almost half that of the man almost every cricket fan acknowledges as the greatest, Sir Donald Bradman
@@MAKelly2121 Bradman played when there were just two good teams and all others were minnows on just two different kinds of pitches in England and Australia. Not much of variety in bowling and fielding was shit and it was a gentleman's game. Only one or two great bowlers he might have faced. Can't think of too many all-time greats he faced either. Just one series where the bouncer was used a little more, his average dropped down to less than half. I am not belittling him. But surely the most overrated cricketer of all time. I am sure he might have averaged in the high 50s or lower 60s playing now. Moreover, there is so much variety and competition now. This is what brings down averages not just quality. Not that he was not great. But surely not incomparable. I am not West Indian. I am Indian. But I would certainly rate Viv Richards the greatest player of fast bowling and Brian Lara the greatest players of spin bowling. I am not an expert. But I sure know cricket. Seen enough of it across all eras. The best all time test side would be that of the west Indies closely followed by the Australian all-time best side. Only white men think that he is the greatest player. Not anyone who is unbiased. Honest opinion.
Both are greats but I would rate Lara higher than Sachin as Lara was always under pressure to perform and he won games for WI on his own
what has Lara won? Any world Cup Final?
Splendid history of the best
Imo brian lara goat. He was sensational to watch and lead batting on his own.
I grew up watching cricket for the last 30 years... i strongly believe Lara had the edge of Tendulkar. .. talking about his WR 400 test runs in a test inning and add 500 runs to the club cricket.... no human being can ever achieve this.. not even the great Sir Donald Bradman... cant simply compare Sir Bradman with Lara... 2 different eras... i also believe Sir Bradman wont achieve his amazing average in this modern era....
What a player ....Simply greatest..My All time favourite.Sachin and Lara both are the two sides of the same coin,however Lara slightly aggressive and attacking player than Tendulkar.
Brian Lara is my number one
India prepared there pitches flat good for batting lara scored all over the world he never wanted to play the weeker teams he loved to play against australia england and south africa
And yet Lara failed in and against India? His test average against India is 35!
SACHIN IS THE NO 1 BATSMAN.SACHIN HAS MORE RUNS AGAINST THE STRONGER OPPONENTS THAN LARA.SACHIN FACED THE WESTINDES QUICKS WHICH LARA DIDNT FACED.IN INDIA THERE WERE NO FAST BOWLERS TO PRACTICE WHEN SACHIN STARTED PLAYING CRICKET FOR INDIA.YET HE DOMINATED ALL THE WORLD FAST BOWLERS IN 90S ERA MUCH MORE THAN BRIAN LARA.IN 90S SACHIN WAS NO 1 BATSMAN AND THEN THE OTHERS.DONT POST WRONG INFORMATION
Lara was a wizard with the bat.
Yesss
Lara, the batting magician
For me, Brian Lara is the all-time best batsman
I think both were great as a Indian I side with Sachin to more versatile, long career, humble, path breaker, one of best technician of the game.. I agree I haven't followed Lara at all but what can I do if I get to see more of Sachin 😮
Brian Lara & Sachin Tendulkar were equally good. The greatest left handed batsman & greatest right handed batsmen ( after Don Bradman) of all times
Brian. Is the best ever .
If he played test cricket as early as Sachin, he would have scored double his amount of runs .
Lara. Simply the GOAT🎉
I think comparing two legends is absolutely waste of time. I have watched them both and enjoyed every part they played. One amusement is that, Lara although being a West Indian batter was absolute specialist of quality spin bowling (Look at his stats against 2 of the best Murali & Warne) while Sachin was a smacker of high quality pace bowling although Indian pitches are usually slow. Records will not show how good Lara was but if anyone has watched him play they might know. I have seen some of his knocks where opposition always wanted to get him off strike as they knew he would only get out when he is done for the match.
Don Bradman in his life time ,saw hundreds of players from 1920 to 2000.
He talked highly about three players only.
1.Garry sobers
2.Graeme Pollock.
3.Sachin Tendulkar..