{"id":25440,"date":"2024-12-13T13:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:00:37","slug":"legendary-cricketer-brian-lara-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=25440","title":{"rendered":"Legendary cricketer Brian Lara in Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KATHMANDU &#8211;\u00a0 West Indies&#8217; legendry cricketer Brian Lara has arrived in Kathmandu this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Office-bearers of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) welcomed cricketer Lara at Tribhuvan International Airport. He arrived in Nepal at the invitation of CAN to watch the ongoing first edition of Nepal Premier League. The NPL is under way in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also the former Captain of West Indies, Lara would watch some matches of NPL and interact with players. Cricketer Lara had played from national team of West Indies from 1990-2007 and played 131 test matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brian Lara has scored 11,953 runs from 131 matches and holds the record of 34 centuries and 48 half-centuries in test matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Legendary cricketer Lara has set a world record of hitting 400 runs in one match in the test cricket. He had scored 400 runs (not out) in test match against England held in April 12, 2004. Similarly, he has played 299 one-day matches for West Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211;\u00a0 West Indies&#8217; legendry cricketer Brian Lara has arrived in Kathmandu this morning. 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