Was there shades of Lara in the young Darren Bravo's innings?
By ram_cv
@ram_cv (16513)
India
February 24, 2011 7:51pm CST
Watching Darren Bravo bat yesterday, I had a feeling that I was watching a clone of Brian Lara batting. For starters, both are left handed and secondly the swing of the bat seemed pretty similar. Also the footwork to me was quite similar between the two players.
What are your view points on this? Do you think he is another Lara in the making?
Cheers!
Ram
3 responses
@grvdubey11 (1879)
• India
25 Feb 11
In my personal opinion he copies Lara and tries to bat like him and this is not his natural style .Although this is just my observation and i can be wrong as i am just another fan and not a cricket expert but what i observed is that if we compare Lara with young Bravo, Lara played with much straight bat and bravo tends to slide the bat across and plays cross batted shots more often. Second thing , Lara used to come out of the crease for spinners to negate or kill the spin but Bravo's body pushes backwards while playing the spin as if he is trying to play a back foot punch.Third thing ,Bravo fancies playing at on side , unlike Lara he is not too comfortable playing on off side.When you are predominantly on side player and your batting stance is that off Lara is difficult for you to play well against good bowlers because an on side player plays cross batted shots more and less straight bat shots and thus there are chances that Bravo will be caught on crease many times .
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@stardustcdsd (1856)
• India
25 Feb 11
now this is going to be very hard for the young kid.
to be reminded of lara and i believe there is also a brother in the team.
best leave him the way he want to and leave a legacy like the legendary lara
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@isloooboy (1733)
• United Arab Emirates
25 Feb 11
I agree with you and wish they both will play some good and nice cricket for their country just like Brain Lara. But I am praying for immediate recovery of injured one during bowling. What was his name?
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