Brian Lara

Personal information:

 Full name:Brian charles

Born:2 may 1969 (age 48)

Nickname:princey

Meight :5 ft 8 in

Batting:left handed

Bowling:right arm leg break

Bole:basman

Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004.He is the only batsman to have ever scored a century, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.Lara also shares the test record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over in a Test match,In January 1993, Lara scored 277 versus Australia in Sydney. This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2–1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.He also set the record for the highest individual test score as captain(400*)He became the sixth batsman to score a century in one session, doing so against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.He has scored the most runs (351) on a losing side in a Test.He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.In the same innings, he became the second batsman to score 1000 Test runs in five different years, four days after Matthew Hayden first set the record.On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10,000 One Day International runs. He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He captained the tournament-winning Trinidad and Tobago, who profited from a match-winning 116 from Lara.