14 Years Old Brian Lara

This is the dream of any player to represent his country at the international level, especially when he is young. In this video, you can see 14 years old, Brian Lara playing for West Indies youth cricket. His stance was a little different, but he showed a massive talent. Let's watch a short clip of young Brian Lara.  

The Trinidad international player is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple-hundred in first-class cricket history.

Darren Powell Career Best 5 for 25 vs SL at Kandy 2005

 Daren Powell is born on 15 April 1978 in Jamaica. A former right-arm fast-medium bowler played 37 Test matches and 55 One Day Internationals for the West Indian cricket team. He started his cricket career as an off-spinner. However, when his club was a seam bowler down in a match, he chose to switch his bowling action to fit the situation. He took seven wickets in the match while bowling seam.

A right-arm pacer, who hits the deck hard. Darren Powell took a magnificent career-best spell of 5 for 25 vsSri Lanka in the 2^nd Test match at Kandy. Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Geyan Wijekoon, Rangana Herath, and Lasith Malinga were the victims of Darren Powell. However, West Indies lost the Test match by 240 runs. Let's watch his wickets.

On 21 June 2002, Powell made his international debut. He took three wickets in the Test match against New Zealand while conceding 102 runs; his first wicket was that of bowler Daryl Tuffey. New Zealand went on to win the match by 204 runs. Powell made his ODI debut later the same year; on 3 December 2002 in a match against Bangladesh during the West Indies tour of the country. He conceded 34 runs from 10 overs and took the wicket of opening batsman Anwar Hossain in the process of helping the West Indies win by 86 runs.  

He played a single Test against New Zealand in 2002, before another in India, then both Tests on the 2002-03 tour of Bangladesh. But wickets in the subcontinent were never going to suit his style of bowling, and he was dropped - without ever really doing too much wrong. The dispute between players with Cable & Wireless contracts and the West Indies board, which resulted in seven players being unavailable for the first Test against South Africa in March 2005, and an impressive Series, opened the door for a return to the Test team.

He was comparatively more effective in ODIs, taking 71 wickets in 55 matches with an economy rate of just a shade over four and a half. He was an integral part of the West Indies team in the 2007 WC in the Caribbean, where he netted 14 scalps in 9 matches. As has been the case throughout his career, Powell did not build on the good periods. He stretched back to the straggler again and was perennially overlooked after March 2009 following which he shifted his focus towards English County Cricket.