Brian Lara's EPIC 213 v Warne & McGrath! | ⏪ West Indies vs Australia 1999

After being bowled out for 51 in the First Test v Australia, West Indies went to Sabina Park in 1999 with Brian Lara was on the verge of losing the captaincy. After restricting Australia to 256 in their first innings, West Indies limped to 37 for 4 by the close of the first day. What happened on day 2 will never be forgotten as the Prince of Port of Spain put Australia's all time great attack to the sword to bring up his first crentury for 27 innings and carrying on to his third double.
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[@diptendusinha3766]

The best batsman I have seen in my lifetime. One of the greatest of all times. He was majestic.

[@F50Aircraft]

In my opinion I rate Lara ahead of Tendulkar and Smith and Ponting and Kallis.

[@thesmashingsizzler]

​@@F50Aircraft Do you mean Steve Smith or Graeme Smith? (Sorry, kinda got confused)

[@F50Aircraft]

@@thesmashingsizzler I mean Steve Smith.

[@syc9675]

I still miss Brian Lara playing Test cricket more and more with every passing year. After Brian Lara retired, West Indies test team never recovered

[@petergreen5337]

❤well said and well REASONED.

[@bernardjay-rw6uj]

The quick eye, with the high backlift, like an executioner's sword. Pure genius, an all time great in every sense of the word. Possibly the best left handed batsman ever.

[@nathanwilliams2152]

He’s the best LH in my lifetime along with Sangakkara. However, Graeme Pollock, by all accounts, was even better. This knock saved his career though. The pressure he was under was enormous. This would have been his last game as captain if he’d lost, he’d been out of form, and was playing on an island, many of whose people hated him (🇯🇲). It’s one of the best comeback innings I’ve ever seen (along with Tubby Taylor’s 129 against us at Edgbaston in 1997)

[@navinbhalani5505]

One of the most loved crickters of our time always pleasure to watch him

[@petergreen5337]

❤well said and well REASONED.

[@sevecheverria3592]

I remember this Sunday, came home from church and asked how much we were bowled out for. Only to hear that no wicket fell all day. He and Adams batted all day.

[@curtisalleyne3710]

Your prayers were heard 😂

[@RobertCrawford-ep6dc]

1:39 1:42 1:43 1:44 1:45 1:46

[@RobertCrawford-ep6dc]

2:34

[@MrDanbarbs]

I’m Australian, and I pray for the day that we get another great West Indian test side. So great for the game

[@edhills9527]

@@MrDanbarbsthe problem is the Indians - they will poach away any good emerging talent for the IPL or any of the other PLs.

[@aniketpatil5328]

Unbelievable player he was ! The greatest ever and the most stylish player even seen..Thanks Brian

[@plantbase7755]

You got to admit that Australia couldn’t work out B Charles Lara to save themselves. They used to hold their breaths and hope that he make mistakes. With all the good bowlers they had, B Charles Lara would make batting look so easy against them and he would do it with impunity. They (Australia) should build gigantic murals and statues of BCL at each of their cricket grounds and worship him before each of their cricket matches, it should be damn near ritualistic.

[@ws0153]

McGrath worked him out pretty well

[@plantbase7755]

No bowler alive ever worked out BC Lara, you’re dreaming that up.@@ws0153

[@mkultra501]

I love Lara but you are getting very carried away with his record against Australia,he scored 9 test match hundred’s against Australia in his career but there were plenty of low scores in there too,Lara only won one test series against Australia that was his debut series in 92/93,Australia are the kings of cricket,it cannot be denied.

[@obaidmangal6283]

If something like poetry had existed in cricket, that would be Lara's batting

[@experiencespeaksout.7697]

Perfect comments

[@vishwavijetmopagar8275]

True

[@jaheedcurtis6357]

No one can swing the bat beautifully as Lara 🎉🎉 sweet to watch

[@056Iceking]

This was the summit for the sport. Cricket was never this brilliant again!

[@bhaskarpuvvala5849]

Cannot agree more

[@shadowwalker4628]

Thank you Windies Cricket for uploading Classic cricket moments.

[@lutafali1129]

Brian Lara is one of the most finest batsman in the world

[@nicholaskhan530]

Brian Lara 😍🏏 cover drive off Glenn McGrath ,,, is the most Beautiful cricket in shot in the whole world 🇹🇹💯🌟

[@vishalmore5441]

True better than any other player

[@kaattupoochi4594]

5:32 ❤

[@syedazeez4110]

Getting hit on the helmet

[@nicholaskhan530]

@@kaattupoochi4594 yes beautiful ❤️

[@adlaistew]

I saw every run scored that day and this was poetry in motion. No greater sporting day than this one …

[@sohamsaha4810]

Let's not forget the contribution by Jimmy Adams

[@glencampbell6909]

Lara the only batsman to rough up shane Warne for an extended period

[@jayantasarkar1664]

Where is Tendulkar name?

[@user-zt7vs7uc3u]

That cover drive at 5.35 is just goat level !!!

[@nicholaskhan530]

Brian Lara was the only batsman to beat🔥 Shane warne so badly in his cricketing career that they dropped him the following Test Match...

[@aj_0073]

That was Sachin not Lara

[@vishalmore5441]

Sachin too

[@flamboyentpromotions3471]

@@aj_0073 no Lara did it in this series

[@alik1059]

It was Lara. Not the other bloke

[@aliciamcdonald7105]

You bet. Warnie great bowler he was, never had much success against him but then not many spin bowlers did, if any at all.

[@user-fe5tp5jr5d]

Truly the Calypso King. Brian Charles Lara. I take a bow. I had the privilege of watching the two G.O.A.Ts of 90s and 2000s in Brian C. Lara and Sachin R. Tendulkar bat like a dream.

[@chrisjames1905]

4:59 He was such a genius that he can even pirouette his bat right in front of the stumps, and get it to fall away from the wicket

[@atifafzal6311]

Brian Lara=Australian team.. 😊

[@SanjayPrasad-ew5do]

In my life lara is was remain best batsman I hve ever seen

[@user-uv9dd1ey8z]

He was majician..in his time he dominated world cricket..and demolished shane warne and glen mcgwrath and others world best bowlers several times..legend for ever

[@kumarraj2012]

I love West Indies..! ❤I wish someday I will get to see the beautiful Carribean..! 😊

[@user2144]

Interesting... the West Indies Cricket Board is using footage provided by Fox Sports (Australia), which is a live retransmission of the video feed provided by the host broadcast service in the West Indies, to show this classic highlights 🤔

[@user-nc8qz9mi9g]

also West Indies cricekt board took this video from Robelinda and cropped his name from the top. Original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYa9aIqpgtKKldU&ab_channel=robelinda2

[@shawshank178]

Probably WI Cricket hold the IP rights to the original footage.

[@user2144]

@@shawshank178 yes. My point is, why isn’t the WICB using a clean-feed from the host broadcaster instead of a recording from the retransmission in Australia by Fox Sports??

[@user-nc8qz9mi9g]

@@user2144 they took it from Robelinda2. See my previous reply.

[@jamesanderson8919]

@@user2144 bcoz they don't have the original footage and borrowed it from the legend Robelinda.

[@visharadarts5799]

Excellent player, and also humble and Profesional behaviour on the field too.

[@The_Conceptual_Chemistry]

Sir Brian Lara.. Respect..

[@sunnyarpit]

One should never forget the efforts of Jimmy Adams too

[@passyourielts]

Wow. That team only had Lara, Walsh and Ambrose, but I guess that's all you need sometimes.

[@glencampbell6909]

Undoubtedly the greatest left handed batsman to play the game arguably the greatest batsman of all time enough said

[@sanjaypersaud4725]

I am yet to see anyone better the this man

[@2001blackwolf]

Brayan Lara pure lejend.. ❤❤

[@IqbalKhan-eg9fc]

Remarkable and stunning Team performance by West Indies specially Brian Charles Lara

[@sathishnagireddy1939]

Old team of westindies rock❤️❤️❤️from india

[@RajivKumar-rs1si]

What a match.The great Lara

[@Lifewithgoldbridge121]

Lara is the goat, but Jimmy Adams gots be one of the best middle order batsmen ive seen. He doesn't worried about making the most runs. Just stabilize the innings together. Very underrated!!

[@banerjeesiddharth05]

Mind blowing innings

[@parthasarathimondal7466]

Beautiful performance

[@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh]

2 reasons for which I rate Brian Lara above Sachin Tendulkar in Tests are: he didn't give away his wicket easily. He went on to make 375, 400 not out and other big scores. Secondly, he played better in difficult situations. Besides, up to 1997, West Indies was a great side. After that, Brian Lara was usually the lone warrior for West Indies. Of course, sometimes he received support from Shivnaraine Chandrapaul, Carl Hooper, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, et al. But that was not good enough for the West Indies.

[@user-zt7vs7uc3u]

I agree plus the way he plays spin and dances around us just great !!he was under way more pressure than Sachin,to come in with 20 or 30 for 5 and produce the runs which he did is remarkable

[@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh]

@@user-zt7vs7uc3u Except for Sachin Tendulkar and some other players from India, such as Saurav Ganguly, Navjot Singh Sidhu, etc., Brian Lara was one of the best batsmen against spin bowling. These batsmen danced down the track and were very successful against Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, et al. Of course, Lara too played very well against them. Besides, I feel that even though Lara played very well in the second half of his career, he was quite restrained when we compare with the first half of his career. This may be because West Indies didn't have the likes of Richardson, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, et al., at that stage. What do you feel?

[@user-zt7vs7uc3u]

@@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh you're right and it was difficult to bowl to Lara because you bowl the same length to him and he would play a different type of shot with the same pitched delivery

[@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh]

@user-zt7vs7uc3u Yes, correct, Samuel.

[@sw1138]

​​ kumar sangakarra has better test records than all of them Average .sangakkara 57/sachin 53 /lara 51/pointing 52 /kallis 55 Double tons sangakkara 11/sachin 6/pointing 6/lara 9 Kumar Sangakkara is the fastest man to reach 9000 10000 11000 12000 runs surprssing all of them

[@calnar]

5:31 that cover drive is *chefs kiss*

[@nitindeshmukh1209]

Sir Lara... The Legend

[@GaneshBabuLN]

When was this repeated again… WI not losing a wkt in whole day of play. God of batting ❤

[@bajajmusic3825]

Tendulkar and Lara dominated Warne, Warne always felt he could get Lara because of his aggressive nature. However, I’d say Lara is the best batsman of spin bowling, Tendulkar and Lara were equal in playing leg spin but Lara was ahead of Tendulkar against Off-spin bowling. I’d give Tendulkar the nudge ahead of Lara against fast bowling due to his technique

[@kirkwilliams5740]

Magnificent, by the Great man

[@Rajesh-vl1xq]

His 271 in the MCG was the best Innings .

[@colinlawrence3685]

It was 277 and at SCG 🤨

[@mellosportsmedia]

The greatest ever innings by Lara is the 153 against australia an innings under pressure is much harder than when everyone around u is scoring runs

[@successfullonglife674]

​@colinlawrence3685 I think he would have broken the world record then, had he not run out himself on 277. The 153* is the greatest innings, in my opinion, given the mental pressure he had to endure

[@mellosportsmedia]

That cover drive is the best shot I have ever seen Brian Charles Lara the greatest ever

[@sagethinker7168]

Jimmy adams was so reliable in the middle order he stayed with lara for ages when lara made 213 and 153 in the next match

[@juanestadian8471]

The greatest innings in the last 35 years of test cricket. Gooch's runs came against an attack that was as good, but England weren't expected to beat the WI, who were still #1 even though showing signs of decline. Lara came into this test on the back of a 5-0 whitewash to SA and 51 all out in QPO. To come out of that and conquer Mcgrath and Gillespie at their most potent was a hell of an achievement

[@TheTredoc]

5:33 Now, this shot alone is why B.C. Lara's Excalibur Flair of Batsmanship on Display Ever is the greatest batsman of all-time, it is his "RESPONSE TO AGGRESSION WITH SUBLIME AGGRESSION! " One Luv ❤!!!

[@TheTredoc]

00:08 "And that's the problem!" What's the problem? B.C. Lara's Excalibur Flair of Batsmanship on Display Ever! One Luv ❤!!!

[@theena]

This, and not the 153 in the next test, is what BCL rates as his best innings.

[@jamesanderson8919]

West Indies cricket board has blocked robelinda's video which was on KZbin since 2011 and has taken that same video of fox sports and uploaded it on their own channel 😂😂😂😂

[@narendrapathak5565]

Lara on song,,,,, fabulous batsman

[@Sundarajan-mo6xz]

Massive man yar.

[@Hindusanatan192]

Best stroke player during that period.

[@experiencespeaksout.7697]

The class...

[@pushkar6175]

Windies vs Australia ❌ Lara vs Australia ✅.. He scored 12 Hundreds vs Prime aussies .. Lara was something else back then .. 😮

[@syedibrahimshah5065]

Genius ❤❤❤

[@RameshSingh-vd8ft]

Wow wow wow

[@smartlivingexpert]

What ‘benefit of the doubt to Lara’ by commentator? He is already way ahead the line.

[@karenburke904]

The prince at work

[@proudindian2186]

Credit to jimmy adams for his resilience aa well

[@chronicle5719]

The GOAT

[@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh]

@sw1138: Of course, Kumar Sangakkara is the best wicketkeeper batsman of all time (alongside Adam Gilchrist) and has phenomenal statistics. Besides, he alongwith Mahela Jayawardene, made Sri Lanka a great cricket team. Sri Lanka didn't have had many good players. But records are not the only criterion for measuring greatness. Sachin Tendulkar played 200 tests for 24 years at an exceptional average of 56. That's marvelous. His technique was brilliant. Brian Lara excelled in pressure conditions and was the lone warrior for West Indies, for a long time. He scored 400, 375 and several big innings of 200+ runs. To me, what set apart Tendulkar and Lara from the rest, was the quality of opposition they faced. Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain Mustaq, Mohammad Asif, Muttiah Muralitharan, Allan Donald, Dale Steyn, Shaun Pollock, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Shane Bond, et al., were class apart from the next generation of bowlers. Of course, Sangakkara also faced Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Zaheer Khan, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir, Johnson, James Anderson, etc. But, honesty do you think that they are in the league of Akram, Waqar, Muralitharan, Warne, Donald, Ambrose, etc.?

[@AbhishekSharma-fz3fh]

​@sw1138 Of course, Kumar Sangakkara has phenomenal statistics. 1. Even though after 175 tests, Tendulkar's statistics went down. Still, his last few years in cricket, were much better than many others. See, playing at 40 is very difficult. Lara scored big runs, especially on big occasions and against quality opposition. Scoring world record 375 was great. Scoring 400 not out after 10 years was awesome. He also scored the highest runs in first class, 501 not out. His attacking style of play, elegance, timing, etc., were a treat to watch. Yes, his last few years were not awesome, but still good. West Indies were amongst the weakest test teams after 1997 or 1999. Still, Lara carried on. As I already said, Sangakkara and Jayawardene were awesome. Their world record partnership in Sri Lanka was insane. I remember that in 1997, Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama also scored a partnership of something like 500 runs. Sri Lanka scored over 900 runs in that match. I think some pitches in Sri Lanka are lifeless. While Sangakkara also scored heavily against good sides, I think that Steve Smith has been brilliant in this Century. He has scored about 10,000 runs in 108 tests at an astonishing average of about 58. More importantly, he has scored big runs in pressure situations and has been crucial in Australia's wins. Of course, it's not easy to compare batsmen. Thank you.

[@VibertWhaltley-ti5hy]

Possible Brain finest innings ever class act

[@boiragirules]

McGrath...Warne..Gillespie and McGill,,,formidable attack

[@janmejay677]

It's hurts today wi cricket situation we love Calypso beats

[@kerrybuns5892]

Back when the fans could engage with the players

[@rkJaat-lv6wf]

😅😅

[@user-pz2kf2wl1q]

Best left hand batsman I hv ever seen with vry high backlift ..

[@ArunKumar-ih8tm]

Brain lara one of the most westindies player

[@plantbase7755]

Did you mean to say one of the best West Indies players of one of the most beautiful West Indies players?

[@AmbrishIsCool]

​@@plantbase7755he means one of the most West Indies player. Okay.

[@plantbase7755]

@@AmbrishIsCool maybe he’s speaking in a dialect so ancient that I’ve never heard of it.

[@AmbrishIsCool]

@@plantbase7755 no bro he just meant lara is the one of the most westindies player. So simple you don't understand?

[@natarinereid5180]

Job well done Lara

[@indiaindia8552]

I miss wi and lara

[@subhasishdey9754]

That entire series was Lara vs Australia!

[@kabishraj]

When the best bowlers shaking their heads and swearing quietly, you know the person who did that to them was Lara or Tendulkar😂. I would still rate his 153 n.o was THE best, because the team was chasing the target.

[@vishwashgupta7197]

❤❤❤❤

[@Feynman_Fries]

Back when windies cricket was great.

[@Uday-km2gf]

Not great but can say average not bad like now days westendies was great in 70,80 and early 90s

[@johncbny]

Shane Warne!! Damn! Damn! Damn!😢😭😢😢😭

[@proudindian2186]

Impossible to conpare lara and sachin. 90s was greatest era of cricket both with bat and ball. May be sachin can be considered better as he faced ambrose walsh and other windies tough bowlers.

[@mitchellreardon1980]

He absolutely belted Warne the greatest spinner ever. Lara on another planet.

[@dupurshahidullah6176]

Mention Stuart M.

[@vikasmeerawaskle297]

Boom💥💥

[@ravijagotra7965]

Pura osho player in the ground g

[@gsb1929]

11 lions vs 1 wild elephant.this way i see this test match.the battlefield was devastated by obviously elephant...so were 11 lions.😂i saw that match live.

[@dilanatapattu4090]

Who has fan base like that? 🤪

[@arkasarkar199]

After badman no doubt

[@solomonbeckford1885]

Different styles?

[@user-jx4yb2vb7s]

At that time no support to Lara from other batsman in west indies

[@VVS167]

They don’t make any southpaws like Brian Charles any more☹️

[@alphacentura]

5:35

[@sadafali1983]

Ye sab match dekh ne ke liye ghar pe TV nahi thi

[@AmbrishIsCool]

Aap ko pata hai bhai mere bachpan me mere ghar me bhi tv nahi tha doosro k Ghar dekhta tha aur vo log mere aate hi TV band karte the.. Vo bhi din the Aaj Mai padha likha hu engineer ban Gaya hu... Haath me phone hai. Ek job bhi mil jaye to jindagi me maa baap ki bhi help Karu.

[@captainamerica5945]

Was this game play in the Congo

[@robeltoburrows8109]

DID YOU KNOW,, BACK IN THE DAY, SOME OF THE WEST INDIANS GREATEST CRICKET FANS WERE ACTUALLY ENGLISH,, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WERE PLAYING THE CONVICTs,,@

[@vineetshende321]

Lara was far better batsman than tendulkar , while scoring tendulkar always looks like he was playing for himself , Lara was a very stylish batsman & stood for right things whereas now a days Tendulkar is licking governments toes

[@jayantasarkar1664]

Fully wrong. Not agree

[@ramasubramaniankrishnamoor2460]

மேற்கிந்தியத் அணி வீரர். இடது கை ஆட்டக்காரர். சர்வதேச டெஸ்ட் அணியின் போட்டிகளில் 400 ரன்கள் எடுத்து சாதனை படைத்தார்.

[@michaelparkins1820]

Lara & Adams will bat all month & nobody get a chance to bat... because Adams will always bat not out

[@urvashi008]

Sachin, who? Lara vs mcgrath- lara winner, wheres sachin?

[@kiklocus4660]

lara is better of the two you know who the other one is

[@AnkitSingh-xl6pt]

Just before this test, Lara had joked to Shane Warne that he was glad Kingston would very well be the last time "I'll say heads or tails". Well............

[@adbit007]

And they Sachin is the god.... Never the title of God so abused...

[@arotogtech]

If Chris Gayle had more discipline, he would have definitely scaled greater heights than Brian Lara, and in a shorter period of time amassed more runs...............

[@AmbrishIsCool]

4:57 This is the greatest batsman you talk about? Getting hurt like this when you're already an established batsmen in the world. Well if McGrath dint pick his wicket, but he removed all his frustration on him and in my opinion its a win.

[@11hitmanDagenius]

Bruh you are picking on how he played one well directed bouncer and calling it a win? There always going to be some hits and misses in an innings for a batsmen but in the end its the way they play through the whole innings that counts. Lara not only survived but dominated them in this innings.