News about Brian Lara

NASSER HUSSAIN: For all the good things that this England team has achieved in attracting viewers, they currently rank second in the World Test Championship table, and to me, the most important currency is still stands second place, and I suspect the results are still second in second place. All sports teams are judged on their records at the end of the season. How they end up at the end of a season or a series. How many runs you scored in cricket, as well as the wickets you took. Yes, you will eventually hear people discussing the game's style, and rightfully so, and Shane Warne, Ian Botham, and Brian Lara are among the people in the discussion.

As the fallout from Australia's humiliating loss to the West Indies, former Test stars Pat Cummins, his team, and each other, has fallen apart. Shamar Joseph (left with Pat Cummins and celebrating a wicket) engineered the famous Windies win by overcoming injury to take seven scalps.

After bowling his team to a thrilling eight-run victory over Australia at the Gabba, West Indies' new superstar Shamar Joseph has promised to devote Test cricket and increase the riches of T20. Despite being injured by a Mitchell Starc yorker on the third evening, the 24-year-old bowled 11.5 overs unchanged to take 7-68 to ensure a 1-1 draw and win the player-of-the-match and series awards.

On Sunday, Windies legend Hooper, 57, was at the Gabba as Shamar Joseph thrashed Australia to help his country win by eight runs over Pat Cummins' world champions. This is the first time the visitors have won in Australia in 27 years.

Following their loss in the first Test in Adelaide, former Australian fast bowler Hogg described the tourists as 'pathetic and hopeless.' In Brisbane, however, the Windies were anything but hopeless, with Shamar Joseph clinching a dramatic victory in away soil, the first in Australia in 27 years. A pumped-up Braithwaite received a note from Hogg after they had won.

BUMBLE AT THE TEST: England set the tourists a challenging challenge on the first day of a one-off Test match with Ireland. Ireland returned to the crease after England declared on 524 for four, thanks to England's fastest double-century from Ollie Pope and a 182 for Ben Duckett. Josh Tongue repaid the faith shown in him by Ben Stokes by taking three to leave the Irish on 97 for three, with James McCollum recovering injured.

INTERVIEW: Simon McIntyre has brought a Caribbean twist to the club's title challenge, which may culminate in a carnival at Twickenham. Since returning to Manchester, where he was born and raised after spending a decade at Wasps, the 32-year-old prop has become a great home-town asset. But McIntyre is also proud of his family's roots from the Far Side of the Atlantic. If Sale beat Saracens in the Premiership Final on Saturday, there will be a particularly tumultuous crowd among the northern hordes in the stands, in keeping with Trinidadian tradition. 'There's a lot of dancing in Trinidad,' McIntyre said. It's a huge thing.'

Sachin Tendulkar's 50th birthday has been commemorated with a set of gates named in his honor, marking the Indian legend's heroics at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Both Tendulkar and West Indies great Brian Lara will be named after them at the SCG on Monday, according to Cricket Australia. The gates, which were used to access the field of play, were unveiled to commemorate Tendulkar's 50th birthday and 30 years since Lara's innings of 277 at the venue.

The 24-year-old England star blasted the Kolkata Knight Riders' attempt at an unbeaten 100 off 55 balls at Eden Gardens, putting an end to his Sunrisers Hyderabad career that is well and truly behind him. Despite batting lower for both Yorkshire and England, Brook, who has been used as an opener by the Sunrisers, has scored in his first three appearances. In the final over Hyderabad's imposing 228 for four, the Yorkshireman set the tone in his fourth by racing to 31 off just 11 balls and made the most of an escape on 45 balls.

Brook was stopped in Florida on his way home from England's new Test series in New Zealand and was stunned by both the baseball players' work ethic and their physical prowess. Although Brook, who was supposed to become a 'global superstar' by England Test captain Ben Stokes after a dreamy first winter as an international cricketer, says his attempts to reach a home run were thwarted by a strong breeze, he left America eager to show that the change from baseball to Bazball was more than linguistic. 'The lads were stacked,' says Brook, an MLB ambassador.' They were huge, and they were all about the legs,' he said.'