00:00This was the historic return of Brian Charles Lara to the Harvard Club.
00:05Just recently, a book launch invitation on the batting legend took place at his home,
00:09the name being Lara, The England Chronicles.
00:11Thereafter, book signings took place at the Queen's Park Oval and the Brian Lara Cricket
00:16Academy in Tiruba, and now Harvard.
00:19As such, it has been a busy period for the former West Indies batsman who addressed the
00:23gathering at the club where it all started.
00:25My sister Agnes had read a newspaper, an advert from the Harvard Coaching Clinic, which was
00:32looking to recruit kids.
00:36It was November 1975.
00:40I was six years old, and the clinic was starting in January, the start of the dry season.
00:48Agnes told Dad that he should get me there.
00:51He agreed.
00:53I was learning to play a lot of good cricket on the streets on undue pitches, but it was
01:00time to move up.
01:01Lara, who's now 55 years of age, feels extremely proud to have passed through Harvard, where
01:06he learned a lot.
01:07For him, it's an honor to be a member of the club and to have addressed those present.
01:12It was such wonderful times.
01:14I visited all corners of Trinidad and Tobago through this coaching clinic, Ecacus Point,
01:21Mayaro, Manzanilla.
01:23I remember playing against Renwick Bishop and his brother, and we were under 16, and
01:29those guys looked like if they were pretty much grown men.
01:34Lara has the highest individual test score of 400 not out, and also an unbeaten 501 in
01:39first class cricket, having achieved so much, he wants to give back to Harvard.
01:44To every single member, past and present, thank you.
01:50To the young ones, I'm not sure if there are much young ones here, but there are a
01:54lot of parents here.
01:55I want to say that this is such a wonderful place to start your career, and one thing
02:02I want to promise the Harvard members is that I want to come back.
02:08I want to come back and be a part of this club.
02:10I want to come back and see this club.
02:17I want to come back and see this club prosper.
02:21Lara also presented a copy of the book to Harvard President Brian Lewis.
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