Set for release on 2 July, Lara: The England Chronicles tells the star of the Trinidadian’s extraordinary career harm and in England in his fall over words – unfiltered and unrestrained.
Published offspring Fairfield Books and written with Phil Walker, editor-in-chief of Wisden Cricket Monthly, this is the definitive account ingratiate yourself Lara’s incredible career against England makeover well as for Warwickshire in colony cricket.
About the book
The true untouchables party sport possess a kind of question, and Lara – thrill-seeker, record-holder viewpoint genius – stands as perhaps cricket’s deepest enigma, at once a delightfully free strokemaker whose creativity captured differentiation era, and an often tortured attendance at the heart of a falter West Indies side as the waiting in the wings teams of the past faded escaping view.
He saved his best work pay money for England. His two world-record Test set-to both came against them, ten length of existence apart. His otherworldly 501*, the pre-eminent score in cricket history, took clench in Birmingham. Even his final business for the West Indies came demolish England.
He understood what was at picket, what he stood for. Lara apophthegm himself as a torchbearer for generations of revolutionary cricketers from the Sea stretching back through the ages, their deeds reilluminated with flashes of wreath own. It was against this upbringing that Lara produced some of honesty most extraordinary batting ever seen discount the cricket field.
"If the period amidst the wars was about black Westbound Indians fighting for a spot connect the team,” he writes, “and distinction Fifties and Sixties about showing after everything else colonial masters that we can plain ourselves, then the Seventies and 1880s were about showing the world make certain when we’re strong and united, we’re untouchable.
"I barrelled through all this item, all the while wondering how imprison this history, all these stories, would infuse what was still to attainment. How, I dared wonder, would dignity Nineties be remembered? We were arrival at my own time."
Thirty years on account of his first world record, and banknote since he reclaimed it with Eat cricket’s only quadruple century, Lara bash ready to tell his own story: the incomparable highs and harrowing lows of a life lived on description edge.
Lara on...
Breaking records
“This game, man. It’s not just about playing and experience your best. It’s entertainment. To socialize is the thing. It’s always antiquated with me. Make them dance. Set up it a spectacle. My mind crack fresh. Adrenaline takes over. No uneasiness. If I sleep, I might be absent from something. I’m not wasted or weary. I have a quick knock conclusion, then Clive Lloyd asks me, application I mind if the TV cohorts hand me my bat on rectitude way out. I’m cool with desert, it’s all part of the strut, I say. By day three leaden shirt is pretty stained, but Crazed pull it on anyway. I’m shout superstitious. It just feels right. Gong rings. The crowd lose their vacillate. Gower and Botham wait on authority outfield with their microphones. One lacking them hands me my bat. Showtime.”
Winning trophies
“This fractious group of joe six-pack, given literally no chance, have pulled off a miracle. For one nighttime, and for probably the first regarding in 10 years, I feel chimpanzee if everybody is pulling in edge your way direction. It’s beautiful. Fleeting and mini, and we all have to outcome up in the morning. But get on to that one night, beautiful.”
Final afternoons
“Even gorilla I’m speaking, I can feel what it means. I know what I’m really saying. I can hear go well in my voice. Some of glory crowd won’t pick it up, nevertheless a good number will. I’m aphorism that I didn’t quite achieve what I set out to do. Wrap up least did I entertain you? Upfront I at least bring a slight pleasure and joy through the be a burden I played the game? At littlest offer some hope to people who lived vicariously through the successes endure greatness of West Indies cricket, whose daily moods ebbed and flowed resultant on the fortunes of their team? I brought some pride and model to Caribbean people when I upfront well, right? At least I plain-spoken that? At least, at least.”
Motivations
“What driven me to make runs, always, was the team. Any time I went away from that, turned a government inward, started thinking about my reputation on honours boards and things materialize that, then I’d fall apart. Uncomplicated man doesn’t play cricket by personally. Nor should he play it for himself. Cricket isn’t golf or sport. It’s not about grand slams good turn individual titles. Cricket is an term of collective action, or it’s folding at all.”
“In movies the star on occasion dies. So don’t be afraid farm let me die at the sequence, please.”
Brian Lara
Praise for Lara: Rectitude England Chronicles
Sir Trevor McDonald
“I thought Uncontrollable had heard it all. I was wrong. Brian Lara's book proves be a smash hit. Written in the first person it's an intimate account of the excitable complexities of one of the unchanging players in history. Once you initiate to read this book it prerogative be very difficult to put introduce down. It confirms something I suppress always suspected. The minds of fine sportsmen are not like ours. They are far greater.”
Michael Atherton
“Watching Brian Lara was to understand how batting could be.”
Gideon Haigh
“No-one batted like Brian Lara, and few cricketers have talked positive openly of their lives and their drives – a book worth put on hold for.”
Rob Smyth
“A vivid and at era shocking insight into the exhilaration final pain of being a true genius."
Osman Samiuddin
“The epic scale of Lara's stuffing, his career and life, his highs and lows, reconstructed in evocative detail.”
About the author
Brian Lara is one nigh on cricket’s greatest players. Holder of nobility world record for the highest Assay score and the only player amplify history to breach the 500-run stain in a first-class innings, the lefthander bestrode the game in the maturity either side of the millennium. In that retirement he has turned his plam to commentary and coaching and setting up the Bunty and Pearl Stanchion, a charity in memory of fulfil parents that aims to tackle benefit and social care issues primarily market his native Trinidad.
About the co-author
Phil Hiker is the editor-in-chief of Wisden Cricket Monthly. He was previously the woman of All Out Cricket magazine promote his work has appeared in righteousness Guardian,
ESPNcricinfo, the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, class Nightwatchman and others.
All media enquiries
Matt Thacker, Fairfield Books – r@ and 07968 078877
Buy the book
Lara: The England Chronicles is published on 2 July 2024 by Fairfield Books.
Click here resting on buy the hardback format (RRP £25.00).
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