Brian Lara
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC (an haife shi 2 Mayu 1969) ɗan Trinidadian tsohon ɗan wasan cricketer ne na ƙasa da ƙasa,   an yarda da shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan bas na kowane lokaci.    Ya ci matsayin Gwajin batting a lokuta da yawa kuma yana riƙe rikodin wasan kurket da yawa, gami da rikodin mafi girman maki a wasan kurket na aji na farko, tare da 501 ba don Warwickshire da Durham a Edgbaston a 1994,  wanda shine kawai quintuple. -dari a tarihin wasan kurket masu daraja ta farko.  A matsayin kyaftin, Lara ya jagoranci tawagar West Indies don lashe kofin gasar zakarun Turai na 2004, karo na farko da kungiyar ta lashe duk wani babban kofi na ICC tun bayan lashe gasar cin kofin duniya ta Cricket na 1979.

Lara kuma tana riƙe da rikodin mafi girman maki na mutum a cikin gwajin gwaji bayan ya zira kwallaye 400 ba a Antigua ba yayin gwajin 4th da Ingila a 2004.  Shi ne kawai dan wasa a tarihin wasan kurket na duniya wanda ya zira kwallaye 400+ a cikin innings. Har ila yau Lara ya rike kambun na cin kwallaye mafi yawa a tsere a daya bayan daya a wasan gwaji na tsawon shekaru 18 a lokacin da ya zura kwallaye 28 a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida da Robin Peterson na Afirka ta Kudu ya yi a 2003 ( Jasprit Bumrah ya doke shi a 2022). 

Lara ta lashe wasan 153 ba tare da Australia ba a Bridgetown, Barbados a 1999 Wisden ya ba shi matsayi na biyu mafi kyawun wasan batting a tarihin wasan kurket na Gwaji, kusa da gudu 270 da Sir Donald Bradman ya zira a cikin Ashes. Gwajin gwajin 1937.  Muttiah Muralitharan ya jinjinawa Lara a matsayin abokin hamayyarsa mafi tsauri a cikin dukkan 'yan wasan jemagu a duniya.  An ba Lara lambar yabo ta Wisden Leading Cricketer a cikin kyaututtukan duniya a cikin 1994 da 1995  kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin 'yan wasan kurket guda uku kawai da suka karɓi Gwarzon Wasannin Wasannin Waje na BBC, sauran biyun kuma Sir Garfield Sobers da Shane Warne . 

An nada Brian Lara memba mai daraja na Order of Australia akan 27 Nuwamba 2009.  A cikin Satumba 2012 an gabatar da shi zuwa Hall of Fame na ICC a matsayin mai gabatar da kakar 2012–13.  A cikin 2013, Lara ta sami Memban Rayuwa ta Girmamawa na MCC ta zama Indiya ta Yamma ta 31 don samun karramawa.  A.n yi wa Brian Lara lakabi da sunan "Yariman Port of Spain" ko kuma a sauƙaƙe "Yariman".   Yana da banbancin wasa a cikin mafi girman adadin wasannin gwaji na biyu (63) wanda ƙungiyarsa ta kasance a gefen rashin nasara, a bayan Shivnarine Chanderpaul (68).

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