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Thought i'd make a seperate post of the phenominon that is Brian Lara. This year (2005) could be just as big as last year for the big man who last year smashed 400 runs in an innings and took back his world record from Matthew Hayden and reached 10 000 Test runs. He also made 1000 runs in the calendar year and he led the Windies to the ICC trophy in England after the thumping they took by England in the Test series earlier in the year. This year however he has already managed to complete his series of scoring tons against all nations (test playing that is) and has also managed to now increase his tally to 30 which is just 4 off the record which he may well reach. He is within 500 runs now also of being the leading run scorer in Test cricket too. He is also within 10 maximums from having hit more sixes than any other cricketer in history though also on that list is Adam Gilchrist who himself is an active cricketer and has a 5 Test series coming up so that gap could well be a lot bigger by the end of the summer. Also a few slightly smaller records mayfall his way too in One Day cricket he is now within 750 of 10 000 and he may reach that total if he has a good run of scores and dependant on what the schedule of the Windies is. I think there may well be a battle between Lara and Kallis as to who has the overall best year and the one who breaks the most records. |
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 12:03am |
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Both Lara and Kallis r class players may the best player win. However if Pakistan played more test matches Inzamam would be up there too.
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 1:22am |
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No way! The guy is too fat and slow and he's just an oaf! He's disgusting though lately he has tried to keep in shape and be a bit more proffessional and athletic but he still has some way to go yet. He earnt my respect after the series against India and is continuing to do so and played a good knock against the Windies which if the Pakis win the match will be in no part due to him but the fact he's not up there is not due to the fact that Pakistan don't play enough but the fact he is just not that good or in the league of Lara or Kallis. Lara averages 54 and Kallis almost 57 where as Inzamam averages 50. Lara has hit 10 000+ runs and Kallis over 7000. Inzamam has a good record but cannot be compared to Kallis and or Lara. |
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Posted: 11 June 2005 at 8:34pm |
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what about marcus trescothick? he also has had a fantastic year. he may
not be in the same league as kallis and lara but in the few test
matches england have played so far this year, he has played very well
and could be a key player in the ashes
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Posted: 10 October 2005 at 1:07am |
hey budy if you look at this year inzamam is way better than his overall averages. but its true that inzamam is only approaching 8000 test runs right now,which compared to Lara is not very good. this year inzamam averages 94.67 is tests. that is extraordinary. |
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Posted: 10 October 2005 at 1:28am |
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inzamam also has more test runs than kallis so in terms of test runs he is better than kallis. this year kallis averages 76 in tests which is amazing but not as good as inzamam's 2005 test average of 94.67. but overall kallis does have a better test average than inzi and i commend him on that.
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Posted: 10 October 2005 at 1:31am |
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lara averages 80 this year which is still not as good as inzi this year but he does have many more runs than inzi and has a better over all average than inzi so i commend him on that.
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Posted: 10 October 2005 at 11:35am |
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lara is one of the best barsman that the game has seen
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Posted: 16 October 2005 at 8:34pm |
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true, lara is a great player and he has made his mark in international cricket and he will be remembered for ever but unfortunately his career is reaching the finish line. i hope he could play forever but every good thing has to come to an end and so will lara's career.
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Posted: 18 November 2005 at 5:56pm |
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i agree completely to everything saad has posted here. brian lara is really an amazing batsman against ANY team. it will a great loss when he leaves! just like when walsh and ambros left!
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Posted: 18 November 2005 at 6:03pm |
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walsh and ambrose were great but brian lara is extraordinary, you can't compare them to lara. Lara is better than them and the greatest left handed batsman ever.
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Posted: 25 November 2005 at 7:04am |
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Today Brian Lara became only the 2nd player to pass 11,000 test runs , a remarkable feat. As I write he's on 161 in the 3rd Test against Australia - this leaves him only 52 runs behind Allan Border's world record of 11,174.
So the magic figure , if he was to break the record in this innings , is 213 - let's all hope (even the Aussie supporters!) that we see history made in truly brilliant fashion........ Congratulations to one the greatest players ever to grace a cricket field 
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Posted: 25 November 2005 at 2:30pm |
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End of day 1:
He is only 12 runs away from Border's long standing record. He is at 202* and will probably achieve the feat tomorrow. An outstanding achievement by Lara.
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Posted: 26 November 2005 at 2:35am |
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Brian Lara has become the highest test run scorer in history. What an outstanding, and phenominal acheivement.
Brian Lara has hit back form by breaking the world record. An extraordinary performance by this man.
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Posted: 26 November 2005 at 8:20am |
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It may have been an amazing year by Lara but isnt every year he plays is amazing?
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Posted: 26 November 2005 at 11:21am |
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Not according to his stats. He had a bad time of it in 97/8 and then 01/02 but only by his very high standards. |
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Posted: 26 November 2005 at 10:09pm |
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Lara is an outstanding player...I'm just sad that it had to be McGrath who took his wicket for the 15th time in the inning that Lara broke the record for most Test runs.
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Brian Lara is the greatest batsman I have ever seen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooooooooooo Happy that he broke Allan Border's record!!!!!!!!!!!! However, I am very sad that he was given soooooo many bad umpire decisions in the last test series against Australia. If he was not given so many bad outs maybe we could have seen more magic from the genius!!!!! I think there must be a penalty for the umpires for making so many bad decisions!!!!!!! |
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It happens to everyone. We can't do anything about it. Umpires are humans and make mistakes...that's the bottom line. Brian Lara was unlucky to get so many umpiring decisions against him, but I do agree that we could have seen more magic from the master, if it hadn't been for the bad umpiring decisions.
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Posted: 09 December 2005 at 10:58pm |
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You are right that umpires are humans and make mistakes but if there were penalties put in place for this sort of consecutive bad decisions against the same player so often maybe when the umpires are about to make any decisions against any player (if he is out or not) they will think twice and consider all the factors before making the decision. I just think that Lara was treated very unfairly and it is totally the umpires faults. If there were penalties put in place for the umpires they may think twice before making that crucial decision,that is all I am saying. Because it was very obvious that not a lot of thinking went into some of the decisions that they made(when he was given bad outs). |
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Yea, but they are mistakes and the umpire thinks he is giving the right decision but it is actually wrong. If the umpire gives the decision thinking that it is the right decision, then it's a mistake and you can't punish them for it. The umpires don't give wrong decisions on purpose so you can't punish them for it.
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Posted: 09 December 2005 at 11:21pm |
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It was so obvious that some of those appeals should have been not out so I don't understand how they could have given it out! I mean even the supporters watching the match on tv could have realized that some of the outs were clearly not outs........(without use of technology) so then how can the umpire think that it is out? You are right about the umpires not giving wrong decisions on purpose because frankly no umpire would want bad names. But what I am saying is ....... I don't understand how they could give some of the appeals out when it was CLEARLY not out. How could they think it was out? They did not think....that was obvious and there should be a penalty.....not really for a punishment but for a warning...so before they make decisions they can think twice before doing so....because if there a penalties they would definately think more.
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Posted: 09 December 2005 at 11:22pm |
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I think the elite umpires have too heavy a schedule and this may explain some of the errors.
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Posted: 09 December 2005 at 11:54pm |
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You may be right that umpires do have a heavy schedule but umpires are paid to make decisions(right decisions) and if their heavy schedule is causing them to make some of the errors that they do....well that means that they are not doing their job! Because frankly umpires are paid to make right decisions and if their heavy schedules are affecting their job(to make right decisions) well maybe some of them that have this problem should do what is the respectful thing to do and leave the job. Because not all umpires have this problem. And the majority of umpires do not have this problem so if a few of them could do their job well under the given circumstances I think that all of them are capable of doing this. So the ones that do have this problem should retire and not make the excuse that their heavy schedule is causing them to make the bad decisions because other umpires are in the same situation and they are making right decisions. So heavy schedules are NOT a factor |
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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 3:11am |
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The umpires are humans and can make wrong decisions. They can't be blamed for making wrong decisions because no one in the world is perfect.
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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 2:39pm |
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That is true but isnt the topic on Brian Lara's 2005?
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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 2:43pm |
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If you look at it, it's related to Brian Lara. It's about the unfair decisions that were made against him in the recent Australia/WI test series.
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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 2:47pm |
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Ok. Then all i cn say it was disappointing for Brian Lara to get the wrong decisions but we cannot blame the umpires because they are human
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Posted: 11 December 2005 at 2:56pm |
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Yea, I agree, and that was the point I was making as well.
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Posted: 16 December 2005 at 3:13am |
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Laras a legend 400 n.o in a test innings and 500 n.o in a first class innings ill be sad to see him retire
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