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Is Lara on the verge of one of his “specials”?

By Will 4 years ago, mid-April Leave a comment on this post

Brian Lara. The most mecurial of cricketers, with talent bordering on the insane, might just be on the verge of a special innings. Despite having not played a first class game this year, his 40 not out (currently lunch) against South Africa was a classic; aggressive strokeplay, dogmatic defence and coming in at a difficult situation. As most people know, all Lara needs is a start…

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3 Responses to “Is Lara on the verge of one of his “specials”?”

  • avinash wrote:
    April 8th, 2005 at 6.05 pm

    One of my greatest regrets - I have never really seen both Lara and Tendulkar at their best in the same game. Would have been a treat for the Gods.
    He has waltzed into the 60s now, and looking good!
    Incidentally, I always wondered whether Chanderpaul would end up driving a bail right into the pitch one day, (especially on a fifth day pitch)what with this unusual method of marking his guard. Is that a punishable offence? Two counts, I think. Bail tampering, and pitch tampering.

  • Jonny wrote:
    April 8th, 2005 at 7.22 pm

    Good call! 100* Like the blog by the way - nice to have a pro-England voice in the cricketing blogosphere!

  • Will wrote:
    April 8th, 2005 at 7.27 pm

    Thanks Jonny. Keep reading :) Some Ashes goodness coming quite soon…

    Great to see Lara’s made his hundred (I’ve missed his last 60 runs :( ). Latest ball on Cricinfo made me laugh:

    55.4 Ntini to Lara, FOUR, full, width, forward, drives, fetch


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