Another West Indian great Chris Gayle also agreed with Lara and said Dhawan deserved a century which he missed by just one run.
Brian Lara's comparison with compatriot Darren Bravo is not something new, but the youngster hit another similarity with the West Indian great when his century against India, on Thursday, made his average -- 47.05 -- exactly the same as that of former captain after 12 Tests.
Among all the Indian captains that he has played against, Sourav Ganguly is the "favourite" of West Indian batting legend and former skipper Brian Lara as he feels his leadership against arch-rivals Australia was "astonishing".
The off-spinner is hopeful of winning the battle against the Trinidadian on the the tour of the Caribbean.
Former champions Atletico de Kolkata notched up their first victory of the tournament with a 1-0 win over Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League football match at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, on Wednesday.
The film marks the first time pairing of Vinay Pathak and Lara Dutta.
Lara scored a defiant 72 in his 100th Test as WI ended day one at 232-8 against SA.
The West Indies skipper dislodged Australia's opening batsman Matthew Hayden.
The actress bags her first film with Akshay Kumar.
The former West Indies captain fractured his left arm in a Carib Beer game when he was struck by a delivery by Lionel Baker. The injury, sustained on January 20, was expected to heal in six weeks, but the Mumbai Champs' physiotherapist, Danny Redrup, said progress had been slow.
Former West Indies great Brian Lara has named Brendon McCullum as skipper of his Dream World Cup XI, which has three Indians in it.
West Indies prolific batsman Brian Lara will join the 66 male members of the Hall of Fame while England's Enid Bakewell becomes the third women to be inducted.
The West Indies captain said he will take his place for this weekend's back-to-back games in Trinidad.
Australia, already 2-0 ahead in the series, reached 320 for three at the close on the first day.
West Indian great Brian Lara will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 2012 ICC Awards in Colombo on Saturday evening.
Reader Prem Mohanty has sent us a photograph.
West Indian great Brian Lara will miss out on the Edelweiss 20s Challenge of the Indian Cricket League because of an injury in his left forearm. Former Kiwi opener Nathan Astle will replace Lara as the captain of the Mumbai Champs team.
Sahim Salim meets Nitin Yadav Sanjana Bharadwaj, who claimed the legendary Brian Lara's wicket at a cricket clinic for budding Delhi players at the Ferozshah Kotla.
The duo skipped the second ODI where Hardik Pandya led the side that went down to the West Indies by six wickets.
Shashank Singh says not finding a place in the Mumbai Ranji team was a turning point for his career.
Former West Indies captain Brian Lara has said that he has been signed by Zimbabwe Cricket to work with their national team as a batting consultant.
Grace Harris blasted a quickfire half-century to help UP Warriorz register an emphatic six-wicket win against Gujarat Giants.
Check out these pictures of the Goan dream wedding.
Reader Aslam Khan sent us this photograph from Barbados.
"I just hope that the negativity surrounding this (doping) case does not spiral into anything else," he said.
West Indian batting legend Brian Lara has expressed his desire to play in the Indian Premier League but said he has to be match-fit to stand a realistic chance of featuring in next year's Twenty20 event.
Several Bollywood stars turned up to attend photographer Jatin Kampani's bash at Trilogy in Juhu, a western Mumbai suburb.
'Priyanka has done very well in Bollywood and Hollywood. But had she joined politics, it might have been a different story altogether. Given how ambitious she was, she would have made a good youth leader. She might even have launched her own party,' says Sathya Saran
Captain Brian Lara said the entire team is behind Marlon Samuels in this hour of crisis.
"Experiments are done keeping in view the importance of match and tournament," said the West Indies captain.
This desi Lara Croft swooped into Mumbai for Comic Con and had us floored!
The West Indies is ranked eighth in one-day as well as Test cricket.
Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria said captain Inzamam-ul-Haq's had helped him a lot during the thrashing by Brian Lara in the second Test.
The batting maestro scored his 34th Test hundred as the West Indies ended day 3 in the second Test against Pakistan on 509-5 in the first innings.
Some of former West Indies captain Brian Lara's stolen cricketing memorabilia and other valuables worth $1 million have been recovered by the Trinidad police, which has arrested seven men in connection with the theft at his home in Port of Spain.
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