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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Lara throws support behind Yorke, Latapy

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Cricket great Brian Lara, right, and Valentino Singh, the former Guardian Sports Editor, admiring one of the Lara 501 jerseys while visiting The Fan Club, Trincity Mall on Tuesday.

Cricket great Brian Lara, right, and Valentino Singh, the former Guardian Sports Editor, admiring one of the Lara 501 jerseys while visiting The Fan Club, Trincity Mall on Tuesday.

Crick­et­ing icon Bri­an Lara has thrown his full sup­port be­hind his two life­long friends, Dwight Yorke and Rus­sell Lat­apy, as they bid to bring glo­ry to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s at­tempt to qual­i­fy for next year’s FI­FA World Cup in Cana­da, Mex­i­co and the Unit­ed States.

“Coach­es Dwight Yorke and Rus­sell Lat­apy, with their So­ca War­riors, are go­ing to make Trinidad and To­ba­go proud again,” pre­dicts Lara.

Lara will be among the thou­sands ex­pect­ed to be in at­ten­dance at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um tonight as the lo­cal team bat­tles St Kitts and Nevis on the World Cup cam­paign trail. Kick-off is at 7.30 pm.

Fri­day is al­so a mem­o­rable one for the bat­ting mae­stro, as it was on this day 31 years ago that he smashed 501 for War­wick­shire, his coun­ty team, against Durham in 1994, to be­come the on­ly play­er in the his­to­ry of the sport to reach 500 runs in a first-class in­nings.

Lara said on Tues­day that the evening is one for cel­e­brat­ing suc­cess as well as pro­mot­ing na­tion­al pride.

“We need to get be­hind our team on Fri­day, which has a lot of mean­ing, so it is an ide­al time to show our sup­port.”

Lara has al­so launched a na­tion­al team jer­sey, brand­ed in each of his record-break­ing in­nings, with to­day’s 501 an­niver­sary among those fea­tured.

The line of kits al­so in­cludes his record high­est Test score, 400 not out against Eng­land in An­tigua in 2004; his ini­tial record-break­ing Test record of 375 ver­sus Eng­land in 1994; and his break­out Test in­nings of 277 in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, in 1993.

Lara has al­so added a spe­cial Caribbean Pre­mier League kit for those who will be sup­port­ing the CPL lat­er this year.

The full line of kits is avail­able ex­clu­sive­ly at the Fan Club, Trinci­ty Mall.


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