'Not even Tendulkar and myself would come close...': Brian Lara puts ex-West Indies teammate above himself and Sachin
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'Not even Tendulkar and myself would come close...': Brian Lara puts ex-West Indies teammate above himself and Sachin

Hindustan Times  

Brian Lara is often considered one of two greatest batters of his generation, the other being India's Sachin Tendulkar. Their contemporary bowlers tend to name either Brian Lara or Sachin Tendulkar, if not both, as the toughest batters that they have bowled to In an excerpt from Lara's upcoming book 'Lara: The England Chronicles', the West Indies said that Carl Hooper, who captained the team in 22 matches between 2001 and 2003, was probably more talented than himself or Tendulkar. I would say that not even Tendulkar and myself would come close to that talent," says Lara in the book. ‘Haynes, Richards, Greenidge, would stop what they were doing just to watch him’ Lara recalled the role that Hooper played in the drawn Lord's Test against England in June 1991. That 1991 tour was also the Viv Richards' final Test series and Lara said that the legendary West Indies was especially hard on him and Hooper, probably because he wanted to push the talented players as much as he could.

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