Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

On 14 September 2012 Brian Lara was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Brian Lara batting against Indian national cricket team | India at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 2002.

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

While the replays were inconclusive, the captain of the West Indies side, Brian Lara wanted Dhoni to walk-off based on the fielder's assertion of the catch.

Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.

Brian Lara received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 10 January 2007.

Brian Lara is also a golf player.

In the 1996 World Cup, he scored 78 and 45 * against New Zealand and Pakistan respectively as South Africa won their group but in the Quarter final with West Indies a Brian Lara century ended their ten game winning streak.

* 1969 – Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer

Many of the former cocoa-producing areas of Trinidad retain a distinctly Spanish flavour and many of the descendants of the Cocoa Panyols ( from ' espagnol ') remain in these areas including Trinidad and Tobago's most famous cricketer, Brian Lara.

* May 2 – Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer

The film also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick ( spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day ), Chris Farley, Ed O ' Neill, Ione Skye, Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.

He also commentates on the matches-a role he has also played in Brian Lara International Cricket series-and has found success.

This was a series of highs and lows: Brian Lara of the West Indies compiled a world record of 375 against them at Antigua ; England was bowled out for 46 to lose the third Test ( and with it the series ) but then roared back at Bridgetown to win the 4th Test thanks to two centuries from Alec Stewart.

On the border of Moseley is Edgbaston Cricket Ground scene of an heroic Ian Botham performance in 1981 and home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club for whom Brian Lara scored 501 not out in the 1994 County Championship ; a record in First Class Cricket which stands to this day, and will most likely never be broken.

* April 12 – West Indies ' Brian Lara regains the individual Test innings record from Matthew Hayden with 400 not out in the fourth Test against England in St. John's, Antigua

A recently opened exhibition, which celebrates the life and career of Brian Lara, is especially suitable for children.

At the beginning of the Frank Worrell series against the West Indies he stated in interviews before the match, that he would dismiss Sherwin Campbell for his 299th wicket, then remove star batsman Brian Lara for his 300th wicket the very next ball.

In the first innings of the First Test against Zimbabwe on 10 October 2003 at the WACA, Hayden scored 380 runs from only 437 balls to set a new world record for an individual Test innings, passing the previous record of Brian Lara ( 375 ), set in April 1994.

Border amassed 11, 174 Test runs ( a world record until it was passed by Brian Lara in 2005 ).

* Most career Test runs with 11, 174 runs, a record held until November 2005, when it was passed by the West Indian Brian Lara ( see: List of Test cricket records )

Left with a record run-chase in Barbados, the West Indies won by a single wicket, thanks to an unbeaten Brian Lara century.

It is also the subject of a chapter in It's Not About A Salary, by Brian Cross.

Here is the BNF for Algol60 and the ICL2900 compiler source, library documentation, and a considerable test suite including Brian Wichmann's tests.

* In the 2004 epic war film Troy, Agamemnon is depicted as a ruthless power-mad king played by Brian Cox.

* 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.

Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

Brian Kernighan is currently a Professor at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, where he is also the Undergraduate Department Representative.

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language " – By Brian Kernighan, AT & T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.

Bash is a Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell ( sh ).

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

A contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers.

It is a main priority for me as Culture Minister to make sure children can surf the net safely at libraries ,' states Brian Mikkelsen in a press-release of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.

He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.