How Lara's 153* Against Australia Changed Cricket (3/25) 

The high backlift like an executioners sword just brilliant to watch. Without a doubt the most exciting batsman of his generation.

The best Test Innings by a batsman by far, didn't watch Bradman but Lara to me is the greatest batsman ever

The best thing about Lara was he was very very stylish and equally aggressive,his footwork was damn good.we won't see another lara.

Seeing this as a young boy in the Caribbean live at the time..it goes down as the best innings i've ever seen and probably will see by a WI batsman in my lifetime..

It was mid-night 12:30, need to go to school next day, but I just want to switch on TV to see if Lara is batting! What an entertainer, TV has to be on if Lara or Sachin is batting. Thank you guys for the memories 😊🙏

Test cricket is always the best cricket to be played

Great knock by greatest left hand batsman who left sledging Australia behind. It's unforgettable the way Walsh's batting, McGrath war of words, Lara batting..

The prince of Trinidad.......

The best test match I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic.

A study in beautiful batting. Brian Charles Lara.

This is such an amazing series by Cricinfo! Each episode is a gem.

In India The legend Saurav Gaguly is God of off side but Lara is non the less, legends are born ounces in a century & he is one of them

Absolutely remarkable!! Champion batsman!! Brian Charles Lara!! Wow just wow

Lara was a genius. To get the scores he did and have the career stats he did in a poor windies side was remarkable. My favourite batsman ever

Sachin was technically a better batsman but he lacked the mental toughness to finish the game and cleverness of lara to save his,wicket from best bowlers of opposition.that makes lara greatest batsman of his era.

We have seen something like that in the ashes today, another left hander another great matching winning innings, another great 11th wicket partnership with a very stubborn number 11, I didn't see Lara's 153, I can say I did see Stokes 135 against the Aussies......

Watching that match as a live innings, i felt pure happiness just to see walsh on the other end and despite that winning that match !!!!!

Just a kind message to some people who presume Indians praise only the Indian players - Who told you Indians don't applaud other good players??? I'm an (Indian and) ardent fan of full team of Australia, NZ, West Indies, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan (and somewhat Zimbabwe also) of late 1990s and early 2000s. My comment won't end if I start naming favorites. Here are few of which I can recall right now - AUS : Gilchrist, Ponting, Waugh brothers, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Bevan, Lehmann, Warne, Bichel, Gillespie, Lee, McGrath and many more NZ : Richardson, Cairns, Harris, Styris, Astle, Vincent, Fleming, Macmillan, Parore, McCullum, Oram, Bond, Tuffey, Vettori, Nash and many more SA : Kirsten, Gibbs, Kallis, Cullinan, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Smith, De Villiers, Boje, Pollock, Donald, Ntini and many more Eng : Knight, Trescothick, Atherton, Ramprakash, Hussain, Butcher, Vaughan, Stewart, Thorpe, Crawley, Cork, Caddick, Hoggard, Gough, Giles, Mullally, Holliake brothers, Flintoff, Cook, Strauss, Pietersen and many more WI : Sherwin Campbell, Hinds, Gayle, Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Lara, Hooper, Adams, Samuels, Jacobs, Ambrose, Walsh, Naagamootoo and lots more (obviously including the legendary WI team of '70s and '80s) Pak : Anwar, Sohail, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam, Afridi, Imran Nazir, Youhana, Younis Khan, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Saqlain, Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Azhar Mahmood, Elahi, Butt, Shoaib Malik and many more (including Abdul Qadir, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Rameez Raja and several others) SL : Jayasuriya, Kaluwitharna, De Silva, Ranatunga, Mahanama, Arnold, Atapattu, Sanga, Jayawardene, Dilshan, Chandana, Samaraveera, Vaas, Muralitharan, Fernando and many more Also many Zimbabwe players like Flower brothers, Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Guy Whittall, Paul Strang, Henry Olonga, Heath Streak, Taibu, Blignaut, Sean Ervine and many others are my favorite, along with Bangladesh players like Ashraful, Kapali, Rafique, Tapash Baisya and nowadays players like Shakib, Mushfiqur, Mustafizur, Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar etc. NOTE : I have written all these names right now based on my memory in one go, so kindly don't doubt that I've merely copied from somewhere. I have genuinely watched and loved all these players' matches hence I remember them. Thank you so much. 😙😚😙😙😙😄😄😊😊😊

The best innings I ever saw. Brain Charles lara the greatest I've ever seen👐👐👐👐

I am a huge brain lara fan. Let me get that straight out. I think he is better than sachin in tests. However, i would like to point out hypocrisy of some of kohli haters. When kohli scored 149 at Edgbaston and two catches were dropped, they kept on mentioning about the dropped catches. Here in this innings, lara also got dropped by healy and the match would have been over. Steve smith got dropped 4 times when he scored hundred at Pune turner in 2016 but it was rated the best innings of 2016 by espncricinfo experts. Have some consistency folks.

Without a doubt the best of all times bc Lara concentration mentally tough batting skills ect 501 runs who does that 400 nto plus triple centuries and makes runs on any pitch against any bowling attacks have been watching these guys most of sachin runs are made on perfect batting pitch against lesser attacks

To me, this is the number one moment that i've seen. By far the best.

If u think u know anything about cricket u should know and acknowledge this is one of the GREATEST test innings of all time...the situation of the match..the weakness of windows fregile tell order the aggressions of tht time australiam team...the pich condition the way he play with Australian field position everything combine make this innings greatest of all time ...he was a pure GENIUS...and he show why...I do not compare him with any one of his era or current era...but trust me...this man was MAD genius .. unfortunately he start carrear at time when windows cricket start to going down hill ND through out his entire carrier he have company of few ordinary cricketer only exception chandarpaul; Hooper and sarwan..which minimize his opportunity to score some more run and thrush some more position ...hats of to u PRINCE OF TRINIDAD...

Most beautiful innings I watched

Great Batsmen of all time Brain Charles Lara

" The most number eleven of number elevens". Unkind, harsh, true. Also, "The Prince of Port of Spain" not "The Prince of Trinidad"

Thank god that we can hear mark nicholas 😅

Lara is the gratest

Came here after 135 of Ben Stokes

Real gem was his 688 runs in 3 tests against Sri Lanka.

Prince of Trinidad

I saw this innings live. The pressure on Brian Lara outside the field and in the field was just ginormous .. This innings just ranks above anything anyone had scored in the last 30 years. Yeah Sachin included. But don’t forget Glenn McGrath.. he bowled literally non stop from 10 overs before tea till the end of the match. Quite simply the clash of the titans..

Is anyone here after Kusal Perera's 153* against South Africa which led his team to a remarkable 1 wicket victory?

Sachin or Kohli never ever played any innings like this. Brian Lara the greatest batsman in the world ever.

wow, in the first episode they dandy forgot to mentioned that the Warne delivered the "ball of the Century" but in this episode they clearly forget to mention that this 153* inning is the "Second Best Inning" in the "History of cricket" point to be noted, ball of the century means from 1900 to 1999! but "second best inning of the history means from 1880 or even eriler!

Would love to see how Rahane's 112 against Australia at MCG changed cricket

Amazing story telling..!! Literally got goosbumps throughout the video❤

From 3:23 you know what a man he was

One of the best of all time. With all the centuries to his name but this is by far the best, esp against the bowling attack

My mom told me that brian was her good friend, she said she would go out to dinner with her friend, brian and her all the time. she once went to dinner over at his house, and his whole team was there, she said they were super tall and had great body structure. brian would always call my mom madam, and everytime she was out with him, paparazzi would be eveywhere

this was better than 400 many years later

Test CRICKET is real cricket and real test for cricketers

Brian Lara is the greatest batsman to play cricket

lara record agaist assie ...extraordinary..

The "Prince Of Trinidad" Was Back On His Throne.....

Brian lara was the best ever define the odds .....bo Batsman or Cricketer has been giften with the fefiance and mental strength on the field....imagine if westindies had at least 2 more batsmen apart from Chaderpaul he woukd of had less douboe hundreds and triple but he w9uldmof surely passed 50 test centuries

Oh holy ! mark Nicholas is audible

Lara 401 not out only player to get a 4 hundred

King Lara, God batting with left hand

IF LARA HAD GOOD TEAM,ALL CRICKET RECORD WOULD BE BROKEN BY BRIAN CHARLS LARA. GREAT BATSMAN. IT WAS HIS UNFORTUN THAT HE WAS MEMBER OF POOR W.I TEAM. GREAT, GREAT LARA

Here because of Ben Stokes. Lara, legend. Stokes, emerging great, if not already!

He was the most gifted batsman in history of cricket

Lara is the grates

Lara was best left handed player cricket has ever produced.

Just the best

He is one of the greatest if not the greatest . We should appreciate what he did for the game . remember the name brain Charles Lara.

You can debate who the best batsman ever or you can experience magic. That’s Lara.

It was the greatest innings among the greatest....lara the true prince

It's one of the innings which increased the value of TEST CRICKET. Now a days wherever you see people talk about T20, IPL so many matches. This period of CORONA no cricket at all. Only way to see now is what done in past. What might come future. It's evergreen innings for all his Fan's..

I was there! Goosebumbs all the way.... That t shirt tho Gideon 😂

Austrailia are on the top, but Lara is in the mood.

Prince of trinidad

Thank god this one has a sound audio voice of Mark Nicholas

Greatest innings by arguably the greatest batsman of them all ... Masterpiece... it was literally like - "McGrath, Warne, Gillespie.. fuck off.. i am not getting out even if God himself is on your side.." ...

Mark Nicholas ..the voice of EA 07 cricket

Best batting display by walsh

Lara ......................the best batsman in the world............The greatest innings i have ever seen in my life. LARA ...No. 1 batsman ....... no doubt.........LARA=LARA

Greatest innings of all time.

He was a great batsman, no doubt.

It was also the inings that shone the light on West Indies' fall

Do one on Adam Gilchrist's 149* vs Pakistan. Pretty much Revolutionised cricket. Infact, do all of the Adam Gilchrist 100s.

Lara was a match winner in Tests !

I was on the edge of my seat for every ball Walsh had to face. I remember, on that day, all work stopped and all attention was on that match! And they say that there is no excitement in test cricket. 😂

Greatest......Ever

It’s only the commentary of Lara’s inning. I was hoping for the video clip.

Genius

His career would have been amazing if the players like dravid and laxman were in WI team to support him at other end. I am sure, he would have won more matches for WI in 1990s.

What was the series result?

Happy Belated Birthday to Sir Brian Charles Lara 50 Not Out!!!....Bat on Lara

Not a single footage...

Lara's FIRST test hundered was 277. Which his rival never got in 200 tests. i.e 400 test Innings.. Lara has played Warne better than anyone else.. due to which Warne was very angry and did not give Lara the the TAG of Greatest Batsman at that time... This 153 deserves much more appreciation than just a video.. dont you think this innings deserves an Award, for THE BEST INNINGS IN LAST 50 YEARS.. Recently Mcgrath has finally acknowledged LARA THE GREATEST... LARA hit Warne so badly in that innings So warne was removed from squad.. then how come Warne never gives Lara the credit of greatest batsman.. warne or Steve waugh,Ponting never open their mouths about this greatest innings??

that innings, and as a captain too ... 153* Lara

Lara was most famous and high rated batsman than sachin at his time.

Your years passing by sequence shows Phil Hughes if I pause at 2014. Just sad.

This should be Courtney Walsh's finest hour. But Lara stole the show 😂😂😂

Why must a certain demographic of people bring up the likes of kohli or sachin when the video is not remotely about either player. It's like they cant help themselves. Anyway, what a genius innings!!!

Only others can dream of this

So how did it actually change cricket?

IF I HAD TO PUT SOMEONE TO BAT FOR MY LIFE IT WOULD BE TENDULKAR DRAVID OR KALLIS LARA

Lol, the most number 11 of number 11s, the disrespect to the great Courtney.

GOAT

Who are after Stokes innings

5-0 was in SA btw

Lara is way better than Sachin

માસ્ટર બ્લાસ્ટર બ્રાયન લારા

He is the best batsman after Bradman

Probably the only other batsman you can put in league of tendulkars & bradmans!!

WTF I thought it was a highlight of the inning

not sure about how this innings changed cricket ? but i am sure it ruined westindies cricket, its the start of westindies downfall in ODI's and Test cricket. this is the last series where they drew against australia, from then they never won a test series on Australia both at home and away. however we must not forget that they proved their might in T20's due to darren sammy's leadership and won 2 world cups.

Now Warner copy Lara's celebration