00:00Prince of Port of Spain, Brian Lara, speaking on a Sky Sports interview and remembering Sir Gary Sobers, had a
00:06lot to say.
00:07Even though I'm here today, I am sad, but yet 89 is not a bad score.
00:15For a great man, 89 is a great score.
00:17And I want to tell the whole of the Caribbean that we need to celebrate his life.
00:21Lara went beyond the talking about accolades.
00:24He says he simply enjoyed being around Sobers.
00:27You know, a lot of people talk about us being Calypso cricketers or Collapso cricketers, whatever they want to call
00:34us.
00:35But Sir Gary Sobers, during that period of time, there was nobody that matched what he did.
00:40And for me, I'm so proud to have spent so many years with him, so many intimate periods with him
00:48on the cricket field.
00:49I played one match with him, a polio match in Trinidad.
00:52I played golf with him.
00:53I spent time with him.
00:55It is something that, I'm not going to cry, but to be with that great gentleman is a celebration for
01:02me.
01:03Lara also seems to appreciate the criticism that Sobers gave him as well.
01:07When you scored your magnificent 277 in Sydney, was he pleased with you?
01:14No.
01:15How can he not be pleased when you make 277?
01:18He was not pleased. You know why? That was January 1993.
01:23I was in the shower. I was the happiest person in the world.
01:26I have pictures of it. I was like, you know, I was in the shower and he came in and
01:31I saw that, you know, I should have had a little bit.
01:33You know, he said to me, he said, what's wrong with you, young man?
01:40He said, what? He said, 300, 365. I'm 22, 23 years old. And all I'm considering on the fact that
01:50I saved the Westernese from a Sydney defeat.
01:54I got 277. I'm the happiest person in the world. The only thing between us, the only thing I was
01:59upset about...
02:01I didn't get 292 to beat Sir Vivian Richards' highest score. But, yeah, Sir Garfield Sobers came to the dressing
02:10room and he was not happy.
02:12A date is yet to be set for the funeral of Sir Gary Sobers. Sergio Dufour, TV's Export.
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