Editing Brian Lara (section)

==Records==
{{see also|List of international cricket centuries by Brian Lara}}
[[File:Brian Lara Graph.png|right|thumb|Brian Lara's career performance graph]]

* Lara struck 277 runs against [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] in [[Sydney Cricket Ground|Sydney]], his maiden Test [[Century (cricket)|century]], the fourth-highest maiden Test century by any batsman,<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/HIGHEST_MAIDEN_TONS.html Highest Maiden Tons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040624234506/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/HIGHEST_MAIDEN_TONS.html |date=24 June 2004 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 July 2007.</ref> the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.
* He became the first man to score seven centuries in eight [[First-class cricket|first-class]] innings, the first being the record 375 against [[English cricket team|England]] and the last being the record 501 not out against [[Durham County Cricket Club|Durham]].
* After [[Matthew Hayden]] had eclipsed his Test record for highest individual score 375 by five runs in 2003, he reclaimed the record scoring 400 not out in 2004 against England. With these innings he became the second player to score two Test triple-centuries, the first & only player to score two 350-plus scores in test history, the second player to score two career quadruple-centuries after [[Bill Ponsford]], the only player to achieve both these milestones, and regained the distinction of being the holder of both the record first-class individual innings and the record Test individual innings. He is the only player to break the world record twice.
* He also set the record for the highest individual test score as captain (400*)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284221.html|title=Highest test innings as captain |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |date=2 March 2017 |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref>
* In the same innings, he became the second batsman to score 1,000 Test runs in five different years, four days after Matthew Hayden first set the record.
* He was the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket, a record he attained on 26 November 2005<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/TEST_BAT_MOST_RUNS.html Most Test Runs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040624000646/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/TEST_BAT_MOST_RUNS.html |date=24 June 2004 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref> until surpassed by [[Sachin Tendulkar]] on 17 October 2008.
* He was the fastest batsman to score 10,000 (with [[Sachin Tendulkar]]) and 11,000 Test runs, in terms of number of innings.<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/FASTEST_CAREER_TEST_RUNS/ Fastest Test Runs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524210617/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/FASTEST_CAREER_TEST_RUNS/ |date=24 May 2006 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
* He scored 34 Test centuries; joint-sixth along with [[Sunil Gavaskar]], [[Mahela Jayawardene]] and [[Younis Khan|Younis Kahn]] on the all-time list behind [[Sachin Tendulkar]] (51), [[Jacques Kallis]] (45), [[Ricky Ponting]] (41), [[Kumar Sangakkara]] (38) and [[Rahul Dravid]] (36).<ref name="List of Century makers">{{cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/227046.html |title=Most Test hundreds in a career |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=21 August 2010}}</ref>
** He has the most centuries for a West Indian<ref name=C1>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/LEADING_BATSMEN_TEST_100S.html Leading Test Batsmen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126043341/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/LEADING_BATSMEN_TEST_100S.html |date=26 November 2005 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
** Nine of his centuries are double-centuries (surpassed only by [[Kumar Sangakkara]] and [[Donald Bradman]])<ref name=C1/>
** Two of them are triple-centuries (matched by Australia's [[Donald Bradman]],<ref name=C1/> India's [[Virender Sehwag]], and West Indies' [[Chris Gayle]]).
** He has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations. He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the [[Kensington Oval]] in Bridgetown, Barbados.
* He became the sixth batsman to score a century in one session, doing so against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.<ref>[http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/100_BEFORE_LUNCH.html 100 Before Lunch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061213095612/http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/100_BEFORE_LUNCH.html |date=13 December 2006 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
* Lara has scored 20% of his team runs,<ref>S. Rajesh, [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ausvwi/content/story/227320.html "The Lara story in numbers"], ESPNcricinfo, 26 November 2005. Retrieved 30 July 2007</ref> a feat surpassed only by Bradman (23%) and [[George Headley]] (21%). Lara scored 688 runs (42% of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests, and the second-highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test series) in the 2001–02 tour of [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]].<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/HI_AGG_RUNS_IN_SERIES.html Highest Aggregate runs in series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626013545/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/HI_AGG_RUNS_IN_SERIES.html |date=26 June 2004 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
* He also scored [[List of cricketers who have scored a double century and a century in the same Test match|a century and a double-century]] in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/100_EACH_INNS_TEST.html 100s in each innings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626001540/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/100_EACH_INNS_TEST.html |date=26 June 2004 }} Stats from Cric Info retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
* He has scored the most runs (351) on a losing side in a Test.
* He scored the largest proportion (53.83%) of his team's total runs in a Test when he made 221 and 130 against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 2001. The previous Test record stood at 51.88% and was achieved by [[Jimmy Sinclair]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jayaraman |first1=Shiva |last2=Seervi |first2=Bharath |title=Who has top-scored the most for their team in Tests? |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/who-has-top-scored-the-most-for-their-team-in-tests-1223054 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=11 April 2024 |date=21 May 2020}}</ref>
* Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a single [[over (cricket)|over]] (28 runs against left-arm spinner [[Robin Peterson|RJ Peterson]] of [[South African cricket team|South Africa]]) in Test cricket.<ref>[http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/TEST_BAT_MOST_RUNS_OVER.html Most Runs from One Over] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040625003038/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/TEST_BAT_MOST_RUNS_OVER.html |date=25 June 2004 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref> He also scored 26 runs in a single over off the bowling of Danish Kaneria at [[Multan]] Cricket Stadium on 21 November 2006.
* He scored the ninth-fastest Test century, doing so off 77 balls against [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]] on 21 November 2006.<ref>[http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/FASTEST_TEST_100S_50S.html Fastest test landmarks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320104020/http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/FASTEST_TEST_100S_50S.html |date=20 March 2007 }} Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 July 2007</ref>
* With 164 catches, he is the eighth-highest all-time catch-taker of non-wicketkeepers, behind [[Rahul Dravid]], [[Mahela Jayawardene]], [[Jacques Kallis]], [[Ricky Ponting]], [[Mark Waugh]], [[Stephen Fleming]] and [[Graeme Smith]].<ref>[http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283548.html Test Career catches] Stats from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 30 January 2015</ref>
* In 1994, he was awarded the [[BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year|BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality]] Award. In 1995, he was chosen as one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]].
* Lara had played some of his best innings in the latter stage of his career. [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|''Wisden'']] published a [[Wisden 100|top 100 list]] in July 2001, a distillation of the best performances from 1,552 Tests, 54,494 innings and 29,730 bowling performances. Three innings by Lara were placed in the top 15 (the most for any batsman in that range).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2001/jul/30bat100.htm |work=Cricket channel |publisher=Rediff.com |title=Top 100 Batsmen of all time}}</ref> His 153 not out in [[Bridgetown, Barbados]], during West Indies' 2–2 home series draw against Australia in *1998–1999 was deemed the second-greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936–1937 series at [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|Melbourne]].
* He was voted as second-scariest batsman to face in the "World's Scariest Batsman" poll of international bowlers.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.rediff.com/cricket/2005/jun/16poll.htm
| title = Gilchrist most feared batsman: Poll
| date = 16 June 2005
| access-date = 27 July 2019
| publisher=[[Rediff]]
}}</ref>