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Contents 1 Childhood friendship with Dwight Yorke 2 "the leading batsman of the modern era" 3 My passion!! Brain Lara 4 Bowling 5 Article out of date and littered with typos 6 Ambiguous sentence 7 Article Length

[edit] Childhood friendship with Dwight Yorke

I have never heard any mention of Lara and Yorke being childhood friends. More importantly, it seems implausible to me - Lara was from Santa Cruz, and later lived with Joey Carew in Port of Spain. Yorke grew up in Tobago. They grew up geographically and socially distint. Guettarda 00:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Dwight and Brian are indeed very close friends and renowned party animals when they get together, but it was their fame as West Indian sporting idols which brought them together, not as childhood friends. Cheers, Steve.

[edit] "the leading batsman of the modern era"

I think Indian fans might have something to say about that! Loganberry (Talk) 02:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Well...as soon as an Indian batsman breaks two world records - and then goes back and breaks one of them again...they are entitled to say something :) - Guettarda 03:11, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Heh; Mr Tendulkar holds quite a number of world records, you know, so that's a dangerous game you're playing! Seriously, the phrase is rather POV as it stands and probably ought to be changed, but I'm not sure what to change it to. Loganberry (Talk) 03:26, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Report the facts, which speak for themselves. How about the tried-and-tested (if somewhat weaselly) "widely regarded as one of the leading batsmen ..." ("of the modern era" is a little superfluous: his record stands up against the greats of all time). -- ALoan (Talk) 10:52, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Guettarda 13:17, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

You don't need "widely regarded" and "one of the leading". I prefer just "he is one of the leading batsmen of the modern era". But actually, I have much more problem with that paragraph. It really doesn't belong in the introductory section. The whole thing should be moved further down the page. Stephen Turner 12:46, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I changed it to "one of the leading batsmen". I haven't changed the position of the paragraph though. Stephen Turner 08:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My passion!! Brain Lara

Dear Brain Lara,

I am Mithu.I am 29 years old. I am your fan.I support West Indies only for you. You are my favourite player,my passion. I live in Bangladesh. My dream is to make handshake with you.I want to meet with You. But how can it possible.

If you reply me by E-mail, I will be grateful to you. I am waiting for your response.

Thanks and best regards

MITHU

Well I hope you get to meet him someday Mithu! I'm not sure if Lara's a wikipedian (but you never know I guess). By the way, another user removed your email address so that you won't be inundated with spam. Lisiate 00:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Mithu, why don't you go to Trinidad and Tobago for Carnival in February 2007? Lara goes every year I think. And although I don't want to be mean I should also tell you that you can do better dream-wise than meeting that particular gentleman. But hey, go to Trinidad where he'll be jumping around in the streets for two days, then come back and tell us what you think of him.

[edit] Bowling

Well, I thought it was classed as "Left Arm Leg Break" but really the only information I had to go on this was Brian Lara International Cricket 2005. I think Cricinfo just classes it as "Legbreak" but someone said he bowls right armed. Does anybody know? Speedboy Salesman | ^{talk page} 12:09, 07 September 2006 (UTC)

A left arm leg break is known as left-arm orthodox spin (well, at least it turns in the same way as a leg break), and I think Cricinfo would have said left arm if they knew he bowled left arm. Don't know for sure, though, have never seen him bowl Sam Vimes | Address me 11:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I've never seen him bowl either. But I hate the vague "leg break" that is used on cricinfo.. Speedboy Salesman | ^{talk page} 15:49, 09 September 2006 (UTC)

Playfair Cricket Annual has him as LB, which means he bowls right-arm wrist-spin. If he bowled left-handed, he would be either SLA ("slow left-arm") if a finger-spinner, or SLC ("slow left-arm chinamen") if a wrist-spinner. JH 21:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article out of date and littered with typos

I'm going to start trying to overhaul this article. Other editors are warmly welcomed if they wish to help out. --Dweller 08:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, it's a right mess. It's one of those where someone is so famous you assume that someone will have looked after the article, they clearly haven't. There are whole chunks that need a decent re-write, they've been edited quite a lot and just look clunky. I note there's nothing about his career outside of The West Indian national team, he's played for Warwickshire for a while etc --Gavinio 09:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguous sentence

I found this sentence in the article "1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when he broke the West Indies youth batting record." and it is ambiguous - which record did he break? I'm tempted to delete it, but instead will {{fact}} flag it, in the hope that might stir someone to clean it up. --Dweller 09:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Length

This article is a bit long (we seem to be tidying it up though!). Does anyone else think that the man of the match awards table is a bit superfluous? --Gavinio 14:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think it's unnecessary, although I did find it mildly interesting. It always seems a shame though, to delete content that's clearly been lovingly worked on. --Dweller 14:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly - could we integrate the MOM awards into the hundreds table (eg to mark where he was also man of the match) or have a look at Sachin Tendulkar's page where only notable MOM awards are included. The trouble with that is that it's subjective. Would some of Lara's stats be worth a separate article? This would enable us to substantially trim this article, whilst not deleting content. --Gavinio 16:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)