Meet cricketer who partied all night, smashed double century in morning, holds a record that's impossible to break, his name is...
This incident happened in the year 1998-99, in the Kingston Test match against Australia, Lara scored 213 runs while batting during the first innings of West Indies. This innings of his is counted among the memorable innings, but before playing this innings, Lara partied all night till 4 am. But even after this, when he came to bat, the bowlers failed to get him out. Actually, before this test match, West Indies had to face a bad defeat in the first test. Captain Lara was criticized a lot. Many cricket legends considered Lara a failed captain. Even Michael Holding criticized him by calling him a spoiled child.
There was pressure on Lara. He was being criticized from all sides. Now the time had come for the second test match. The captain should have been in the team bus first. His teammates were waiting in the team bus but Lara did not reach on time. Then the team bus left him and left for the stadium, but luckily Lara reached the stadium at the last moment due to warm up.
People talked a lot about this. His companions even said about this incident that, "He was partying in Kingston night club 'The Asylum' till 4 in the morning."
At the toss in the second Test, Lara told Steve Waugh, "This could be the last time I do this.. After this the Test match begins. After restricting Australia to 256 runs in the first innings on the first day, the West Indies team was all out for 37 runs for 4 wickets. Lara was not out on 7 runs.
Brian Lara has crossed the 1000-run mark in Test cricket five times in a calendar year, highlighting his dominance and consistency in the format.
Under pressure, the Australian team collapsed for 177 runs in the second innings. Then West Indies scored three runs in their second innings and won the match by 10 wickets, Mike Coward wrote in his Wisden report, "Lara charmed the people of a bankrupt nation, revived his career as a rare talent batsman and rekindled cricket throughout the Caribbean... It was one of the great Test innings by universal consent." After this, Lara never looked back.
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