ACCORDING to manager Wes Hall’s report, Brian Lara complained that “cricket has ruined my life” after walking out on the West Indies team after the fourth Test during its 1995 tour of England.
It was a comment based on the weight of high expectations the incomparable left-hander, already holder of Test and first-class record scores, took with him every time he went to the crease for West Indies.
It required the intervention of Peter Short, West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president at the time, to convince him to return. At a meeting at the
