EAM Jaishankar meets veteran cricketer Brian Lara on his official tour of Trinidad and Tobago

Lara is widely regarded as one of the greatest batters of all time and is bracketed alongside the elite company of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis. During his 17-year-long international career, he made 11,953 runs in 131 Tests at an astonishing average of 52.89 and 10,405 runs in 299 ODIs.