- He holds the record of highest individual score in Test matches (400* against England).
- Lara holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.
- Former captain of the West Indies.
- In November 2005 he become test cricket's leading run scorer of all time, when passing the 11,174 total of former Australian captain Allan Border. Lara scored 226 in that innings verses the Australians.
- Gave up as captain of the West Indies in March 2005.
- has regained the west Indies captaincy for a third successive time may 2006
- Played in 5 Cricket World Cups for the West Indies team in the years 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003 & 2007.
- His best friend is footballer Dwight Yorke.
- Scored 400 or more runs across a test series on 11 occasions.
- His unbeaten knock of 153 against Australia chasing 308 in the fourth innings at Barbados during the 1998-99 Frank Worrell Trophy was voted by Wisden as the second greatest individual test batting performance of all-time.
- Member of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club in England (1994-98).
- Had 9 individual scores of 200 or more.
- Founding trustee of the Pearl & Bunty Lara Foundation, named after his parents.
- Although his rivalry with Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar for the title of the best batsman in the world was hyped by the media, he is actually very good friends with Tendulkar ever since their active playing careers.
- Amongst batsmen with more than 5000 runs, his per test strike rate of 91 is the third highest behind Australia's Sir Don Bradman and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara.
- Despite being dismissed by Australian Glenn McGrath 15 times in tests, Lara reckons Pakistani legend Wasim Akram as the most devastating bowler he played against.
- Enjoys playing golf.
- Highest run scorer for the West Indies at the 1992, 1996 and 2003 World Cups.
- United States President Barack Obama on a visit to Trinidad & Tobago personally met Lara and hailed him as "The Michael Jordan Of Cricket".
- On the eve of his final international match at the 2007 World Cup against England, he was asked to say some words on his career during the post match presentation. He simply asked to the crowd "Did I entertain ?". The entire crowd, including England's supporters, gave a resounding applause.
- Has an estimated net worth of US$ 60 million.
- Was presented with the BBC Overseas Sports Personality Of The Year Award in 1994. He was at the time only the second cricketer after Sir Garfield Sobers to be bestowed with the honor and with Shane Warne winning the trophy in 2004, he remains one of the only three cricketers to achieve this feat as of 2021.
- The PlayStation video game series BRIAN LARA CRICKET developed by Codemasters, is dedicated to and endorsed by him.
- Was voted by Wisden as the 10th greatest test batsman and 3rd greatest ODI batsman of all-time. He alongside fellow West Indian Sir Vivian Richards and Indian contemporary Sachin Tendulkar are the only players to be in the top 10 of both formats.
- Amongst batsmen with 10000 runs or more in tests, Lara has the lowest number of "not-outs". He remained unbeaten in only 6 of his 232 innings.
- The mean of all his 9 double centuries is 260.
- Although regarded as more accustomed to home conditions by his critics based on his batting average being below 50 overseas unlike rivals and contemporaries such as Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh, it should be noted that Lara had an RPI(Runs Per Innings) of 47.41 on foreign tours and remained unbeaten only once across 121 innings. In fact, even if Lara's statistics in Zimbabwe, easily the weakest test team of his generation, are excluded, his RPI continues to remain a highly respectable 47.13 in 117 innings with 16 centuries, including 5 doubles.
- Counting only the test playing nations of the 1990s, Lara was the 6th highest run scorer in ODIs played during the decade, trailing the top scorer Sachin Tendulkar by just 2000 runs despite playing 58 less innings. In the same criteria, Lara was the third highest run accumulator when chasing a target, behind Tendulkar and Sri Lanka's Aravinda De Silva but again in lesser number of innings and at a higher batting average.
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1995 as well as Wisden Leading Cricketer In The World for both 1994 and 1995.
- In a poll conducted during an unspecified year post his retirement, Lara was ranked the second scariest batsman in the history of cricket based on votes from leading bowlers from eras.
- Was the fourth batsman in tests(after Sunil Gavaskar, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar) as well as in ODIs(after Sachin Tendulkar, Inzamam-Ul-Haq and Sourav Ganguly) to scale 10,000 international runs. Lara as of date continues to remain the fastest to accomplish the landmark in tests, taking only 195 innings to do so. [January, 2022].
- Was on probationary captaincy for the 1999 Frank Worrell Trophy at home following the 5-0 whitewash in South Africa a few months prior. Following the loss in the first test at Trinidad, Lara is said to have jokingly remarked to Shane Warne that the second test at Kingston might very well be "the last time I'll toss the coin". Lara scored 213 in the test and West Indies won by 10 wickets.
- Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who was voted by Wisden as the greatest test bowler of all-time in 2001, rated Lara as the most dangerous batsman he ever came across. Murali considered the 2001 West Indies tour of Sri Lanka being a testament to his comment as despite being the incumbent number 1 ranked bowler in ICC ratings, Murali was unable to contain Lara's scoring capacity who ended up with 688 runs in the 3 tests played which was more than a quarter of the West Indies' aggregate across all 6 innings, although West Indies were whitewashed 3-0.
- Despite dismissing him for 15 times in tests in a space of only 38 innings, Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath hailed Lara as the greatest batsman he had ever bowled to, highlighting that each of the 15 dismissals cost him 41.4 runs, mathematically making Lara's tally 621 runs against McGrath alone which happens to be over 21 percent of Lara's aggregate of 2856 runs in 57 innings against Australia.
- At time of his retirement, Lara had appeared in a record 63 tests on the losing side. However, even in these lost tests he scored 5316 runs at an average of 42.19 with 14 centuries. Both the statistics were overtaken by fellow West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who played 77 tests lost by the West Indies and scored 5379 runs but at a lower average.
- Scored over a thousand test runs during a single cricketing calendar year on 5 separate occasions.
- Named his daughter Sydney after the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia where he scored his maiden test century, a knock of 277 during the 1992-93 Frank Worrell Trophy.
- Eighth West Indian batsman to score centuries in both the innings of a test match. He achieved this feat at Colombo during the 2001 tour of Sri Lanka.
- Second highest run scorer amongst non Asian batsmen, behind fellow West Indian Richie Richardson, in ODIs played at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, UAE. In 21 appearances at the ground, he scored 727 runs averaging 34.62 with 2 centuries including his career best 169 against Sri Lanka and 153* against Pakistan, both knocks being included in Wisden's top-10 best ODI performances of all-time.
- Was the number one ranked ranked ODI batsman on the ICC points table from 8th march, 1996 right upto 21st january, 1999 covering a period of 1049 days. As of january 2023, it is the fifth longest duration for any player to have held the top spot on the ICC ODI batting ratings, behind only fellow West Indian Sir Vivian Richards, India's Virat Kohli and Australians Michael Bevan and Dean Jones.
- Third most prolific overseas batsman in Australian Tri-Series tournaments, with 1613 runs in 43 matches at an average of 41 including 4 centuries, behind only fellow West Indians Sir Vivian Richards and Desmond Haynes.
- Despite retiring as the most prolific batsman in test history in 2006, Lara like good friend and long-term rival Sachin Tendulkar, who eventually surpassed him as the record holder for most runs in the format, was not the highest run scorer of either of the two decades he played in. He was the seventh highest run getter during the 1990s and and the eleventh highest of the 2000s.
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