The high backlift like an executioners sword just brilliant to watch. Without a doubt the most exciting batsman of his generation.

Test cricket is always the best cricket to be played

The best ever innings under pressure you can ever imagine. 🙏 Lara the talisman.

The best Test Innings by a batsman by far, didn't watch Bradman but Lara to me is the greatest batsman ever

Seeing this as a young boy in the Caribbean live at the time..it goes down as the best innings i've ever seen and probably will see by a WI batsman in my lifetime..

The best thing about Lara was he was very very stylish and equally aggressive,his footwork was damn good.we won't see another lara.

One of the greatest match winner of the cricket faternity.....Just only wish what would have he achieved if only he had a good team....He is the best....and will be best .....That charisma , that flair and above all standing alone and fighting it out when everyting was lost....A one in a generation player.....Miss u Prince Lara.

Walsh MOTM. Great work surviving those 5 deliveries.

It was mid-night 12:30, need to go to school next day, but I just want to switch on TV to see if Lara is batting! What an entertainer, TV has to be on if Lara or Sachin is batting. Thank you guys for the memories 😊🙏

Sir Viv and Brian the best two batsmen I’ve seen to date. Third one I wish I saw bat is Sir Gary, and I’m not a West Indian

remember this as if it was just yesterday. Absolutely astounding knock based on the circumstances prior, Glad to have witnessed this special knock. BEST EVER.

I was in college; though from India we gew batchmets were hardcore Lara fans and we always put him before sachin anyday; it was very late night to almost morning when the barbados test finished and the warrior stood alone battling one of the best bowlign attack of all time of warne, gilli and mcgrath, bret lee, he just didnt cared who bowled that day, the kind took the match away from aussies plate, 20 years after i still feel goosebumps remembering that night, greatest test innings from the greatest batsman of all time! Salute the king! Thanks for all Lara!

The best test match I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic.

A study in beautiful batting. Brian Charles Lara.

Great knock by greatest left hand batsman who left sledging Australia behind. It's unforgettable the way Walsh's batting, McGrath war of words, Lara batting..

This is such an amazing series by Cricinfo! Each episode is a gem.

He's not just best he's one of the few players that fans of opponent team would want to see on the wicket. Because in the end spectators come to see a performance and who else knows how to perform but Lara. "Style bolay tu Khatam hay is banday par."

The prince of Trinidad.......

Absolutely remarkable!! Champion batsman!! Brian Charles Lara!! Wow just wow

In India The legend Saurav Gaguly is God of off side but Lara is non the less, legends are born ounces in a century & he is one of them

The best I have seen as I never saw sunny, Viv and Don live.

Lara was a genius. To get the scores he did and have the career stats he did in a poor windies side was remarkable. My favourite batsman ever

Sachin was technically a better batsman but he lacked the mental toughness to finish the game and cleverness of lara to save his,wicket from best bowlers of opposition.that makes lara greatest batsman of his era.

How about including some of the footage from that innings?

To me, this is the number one moment that i've seen. By far the best.

The greatest innings i have ever seen in my life..... The best batsman i have seen ...👌👌👌

We have seen something like that in the ashes today, another left hander another great matching winning innings, another great 11th wicket partnership with a very stubborn number 11, I didn't see Lara's 153, I can say I did see Stokes 135 against the Aussies......

Amazing story telling..!! Literally got goosbumps throughout the video❤

Brian Lara is the greatest batsman of all time with no doubt and the greatest innings of all time and one of the greatest cricket series ever. Non can compare to the great Brian Charles Lara .

The best innings I ever saw. Brain Charles lara the greatest I've ever seen👐👐👐👐

Without a doubt the best of all times bc Lara concentration mentally tough batting skills ect 501 runs who does that 400 nto plus triple centuries and makes runs on any pitch against any bowling attacks have been watching these guys most of sachin runs are made on perfect batting pitch against lesser attacks

What a Match!

Always felt bad for lara. He didn't get the support from anywhere in that team at that time. He had some great players in his team here and there like walsh, ambrose, chanderpaul, sarawan, gayle(during lara's end years) But they never quite clicked altogether. Atleast he won champions trophy with WI

I listened to almost all of this innings on radio (unfortunately this series wasn't broadcast on free to air tv in Australia like 91 and 95). So Lara scored 153 without getting out out while six of his partners got out around him plus the one who didn't all contributing 80 between them minus whatever extras were scored while Lara was at the crease (possibly as many as 20 odd given 28 in whole innings and the score quadrupled from when Lara went to the crease to when victory was achieved).

Watching that match as a live innings, i felt pure happiness just to see walsh on the other end and despite that winning that match !!!!!

Most beautiful innings I watched

I am a huge brain lara fan. Let me get that straight out. I think he is better than sachin in tests. However, i would like to point out hypocrisy of some of kohli haters. When kohli scored 149 at Edgbaston and two catches were dropped, they kept on mentioning about the dropped catches. Here in this innings, lara also got dropped by healy and the match would have been over. Steve smith got dropped 4 times when he scored hundred at Pune turner in 2016 but it was rated the best innings of 2016 by espncricinfo experts. Have some consistency folks.

Hope you'll add the "Gabba - magic" soon in this Playlist as well the whole series. 😉

He was the old king of cricket and managed his team to win some matches.

Great Batsmen of all time Brain Charles Lara

A true legend Sir Lara

The best ever,many greats play the game but Lara the Greatest Batsman ever

I watched live at 4AM, couldn't have been more happier with the finish.

Those were days when each and every team had "BOWLERS".Akram,wakar,akhtar,saqlain,Shane warne, McGrath, Pollock,Donald, Ambrose,Walsh,chaminda and the list continue. Tendulkar and Lara both dominated that era which makes them great.

Just a kind message to some people who presume Indians praise only the Indian players - Who told you Indians don't applaud other good players??? I'm an (Indian and) ardent fan of full team of Australia, NZ, West Indies, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan (and somewhat Zimbabwe also) of late 1990s and early 2000s. My comment won't end if I start naming favorites. Here are few of which I can recall right now - AUS : Gilchrist, Ponting, Waugh brothers, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Bevan, Lehmann, Warne, Bichel, Gillespie, Lee, McGrath and many more NZ : Richardson, Cairns, Harris, Styris, Astle, Vincent, Fleming, Macmillan, Parore, McCullum, Oram, Bond, Tuffey, Vettori, Nash and many more SA : Kirsten, Gibbs, Kallis, Cullinan, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Smith, De Villiers, Boje, Pollock, Donald, Ntini and many more Eng : Knight, Trescothick, Atherton, Ramprakash, Hussain, Butcher, Vaughan, Stewart, Thorpe, Crawley, Cork, Caddick, Hoggard, Gough, Giles, Mullally, Holliake brothers, Flintoff, Cook, Strauss, Pietersen and many more WI : Sherwin Campbell, Hinds, Gayle, Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Lara, Hooper, Adams, Samuels, Jacobs, Ambrose, Walsh, Naagamootoo and lots more (obviously including the legendary WI team of '70s and '80s) Pak : Anwar, Sohail, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam, Afridi, Imran Nazir, Youhana, Younis Khan, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Saqlain, Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Azhar Mahmood, Elahi, Butt, Shoaib Malik and many more (including Abdul Qadir, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Rameez Raja and several others) SL : Jayasuriya, Kaluwitharna, De Silva, Ranatunga, Mahanama, Arnold, Atapattu, Sanga, Jayawardene, Dilshan, Chandana, Samaraveera, Vaas, Muralitharan, Fernando and many more Also many Zimbabwe players like Flower brothers, Alistair Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Guy Whittall, Paul Strang, Henry Olonga, Heath Streak, Taibu, Blignaut, Sean Ervine and many others are my favorite, along with Bangladesh players like Ashraful, Kapali, Rafique, Tapash Baisya and nowadays players like Shakib, Mushfiqur, Mustafizur, Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar etc. NOTE : I have written all these names right now based on my memory in one go, so kindly don't doubt that I've merely copied from somewhere. I have genuinely watched and loved all these players' matches hence I remember them. Thank you so much. 😙😚😙😙😙😄😄😊😊😊

One of the best of all time. With all the centuries to his name but this is by far the best, esp against the bowling attack

This inning by Lara and the recent almost carbon copy inning by Kusal Perera against South Africa are not only great moments in cricket but also great moments in humanity.

The Legend..

If u think u know anything about cricket u should know and acknowledge this is one of the GREATEST test innings of all time...the situation of the match..the weakness of windows fregile tell order the aggressions of tht time australiam team...the pich condition the way he play with Australian field position everything combine make this innings greatest of all time ...he was a pure GENIUS...and he show why...I do not compare him with any one of his era or current era...but trust me...this man was MAD genius .. unfortunately he start carrear at time when windows cricket start to going down hill ND through out his entire carrier he have company of few ordinary cricketer only exception chandarpaul; Hooper and sarwan..which minimize his opportunity to score some more run and thrush some more position ...hats of to u PRINCE OF TRINIDAD...

here in Trinidad ..we all remember that nail bitting test match.. by that time lara was already a superstar . and yet again prove why he was the most photographed human on the planet.. even more than princess diana ... how proud he made us felt to be Trinidadian .... we had expected darren bravo to take his place in flare and that special placment and timing but .. he gave us a few knocks but could never fill the masters shoes that because his brother already made the family rich and he is a spoil .brate mouthin off the wrong people .. well played sir Brain Charles Lara... you will always be our prince... lash them lara ... licks like peas.. he was bowlers nightmare.. poor guys couldt sleep once lara was still to bat.. ask shane warne ... the guy was susking crying after the games he played against Lara... lets keep our eyes on nickolas pooran.. just maybe who knows..

That was most great inning number one inning of that I see in my life I am great fan of westindies cricket and Brian Lara Richie Richardson and class Carl Hooper Ambrose Walsh and more great caribean players

Just the best

I was there! Goosebumbs all the way.... That t shirt tho Gideon 😂

Prince of Trinidad

wow, in the first episode they dandy forgot to mentioned that the Warne delivered the "ball of the Century" but in this episode they clearly forget to mention that this 153* inning is the "Second Best Inning" in the "History of cricket" point to be noted, ball of the century means from 1900 to 1999! but "second best inning of the history means from 1880 or even eriler!

You can't simply match the elegance of a Lara Square cut...

Thank god that we can hear mark nicholas 😅

lara record agaist assie ...extraordinary..

One of the best innings of Brian lara

Those last comments by David hookes was pretty sentimental I reckon. You won't forget that

Can you please add some video of the game instead of some still photos?

Lara is the gratest

" The most number eleven of number elevens". Unkind, harsh, true. Also, "The Prince of Port of Spain" not "The Prince of Trinidad"

Greatest......Ever

Would love to see how Rahane's 112 against Australia at MCG changed cricket

Real gem was his 688 runs in 3 tests against Sri Lanka.

Test CRICKET is real cricket and real test for cricketers

I saw this innings live. The pressure on Brian Lara outside the field and in the field was just ginormous .. This innings just ranks above anything anyone had scored in the last 30 years. Yeah Sachin included. But don’t forget Glenn McGrath.. he bowled literally non stop from 10 overs before tea till the end of the match. Quite simply the clash of the titans..

Greatest test innings in the history of cricket!

My mom told me that brian was her good friend, she said she would go out to dinner with her friend, brian and her all the time. she once went to dinner over at his house, and his whole team was there, she said they were super tall and had great body structure. brian would always call my mom madam, and everytime she was out with him, paparazzi would be eveywhere

From 3:23 you know what a man he was

Tony Grieg “What a player”

Is anyone here after Kusal Perera's 153* against South Africa which led his team to a remarkable 1 wicket victory?

Sachin or Kohli never ever played any innings like this. Brian Lara the greatest batsman in the world ever.

The "Prince Of Trinidad" Was Back On His Throne.....

Came here after 135 of Ben Stokes

What was the series result?

Oh holy ! mark Nicholas is audible

He was a great batsman, no doubt.

It was the greatest innings ever played. Ben Stokes also played a great innings, nearly as good as Lara's, but the opposition bowlers - Pattinson, Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon were a shade below those Lara faced - McGrath (547 Test wickets), Gillespie (259 Test wickets), Shane Warne (708 Test wickets) and Stuart McGill (208 Test wickets).

Best batting display by walsh

King Lara, God batting with left hand

Thank god this one has a sound audio voice of Mark Nicholas

It was also the inings that shone the light on West Indies' fall

Lara 401 not out only player to get a 4 hundred

Greatest Ever Batsman in the world. #BrianLara

The most number 11 of number 11's.....

Here because of Ben Stokes. Lara, legend. Stokes, emerging great, if not already!

Mark Nicholas ..the voice of EA 07 cricket

What a great batsman. He would've absolutely nailed T20.

He is one of the greatest if not the greatest . We should appreciate what he did for the game . remember the name brain Charles Lara.

I can't forget Courtney Walsh in the penultimate over..his nervousness to save the match was hilarious!!

Still the best!!!

Prince of trinidad

IF LARA HAD GOOD TEAM,ALL CRICKET RECORD WOULD BE BROKEN BY BRIAN CHARLS LARA. GREAT BATSMAN. IT WAS HIS UNFORTUN THAT HE WAS MEMBER OF POOR W.I TEAM. GREAT, GREAT LARA

World Cricket needs a strong West Indies Cricket & will always need it.

Greatest innings of all time.

He was the most gifted batsman in history of cricket

It was the greatest innings among the greatest....lara the true prince

Only 2 people could have done that against McGrath, warne and gillispie as bowlers , steve Waugh as captain , ponting, Langer etc as fielder's and specially on the fifth day batting track . One was Sachin and second one was Lara. To Australians misfortune it was one of these two at the crease