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Onus on Windies' wizard
ISLAMABAD. Feb 12 (AFP): Brian Lara will face the toughest test of his career in the next few days as he bids single-handedly to save the West Indies from World Cup disaster.
If the world's greatest batsman falls to come up with his normal elan In the Group A opener against Zimbabwe in Hyderabad thia week, the former double champions might have to book their planes home just after the first round.
Defeat to Zimbabwe — on top of the match forfeited against Srl Lanka on Sunday — would leave the West Indians needing to beat favourites Australia, home side India and the minnows from Kenya to make absolutely sure of a quarter-final berth.
Their early elimination would be a disaster for the tournament, the fans ... and for Lara himself.
Rarely has so much expec tation been heaped upon a single player.
When Lata boycotted the West Indies'warm-up tour of Australia after falling out with both teammates and management. the side promptly
crashed to one humiliating defeat after another, even losing to the apprentices irom the Australian Cricket Academy before being bundled out of the World Series.
The loss of Carl Hooper frpm the squad — followed by the team's decision to stay
clear of the Sn Lankan capital. thus forfeiting both sym pathy and points — has raised the stakes even further.
Lara's brittle relationship with team skipper Richie Richardson presents another potential problem on Friday.
Lara, whose refusal to go
to Australia followed another bust up in England last year, offered an olive branch last moath by saying. "We must -forget the past and look to the future."
Richardson, who knows that Lara — the proud owner of the highest individual Test score of 375 and first-class total of 501 - is likely to be his successor, responded pointedly. "You can't afford to have that talent not playing the game ... he Is the best In the world. I'm delighted tp be playing with him and to be his captain."
Victory against Zimbabwe, set up by a Lara ton. may help heal the wounds between the two men. during the World Cup at least.
But the West Indies, winners in 1975 and 1979, should not expect too much support from the local fans at Hyderabad on February 16.
The sub-continent has closed ranks in criticising the Australian and West Indian boycott of Colombo following security fears and have taken the Zimbabweans — the two teams willing to play there — to their hearts.
The tournament organis- ' ers, however, despite adding to the chorus of disapproval, will not want to see the West , Indies, one of the major draws of the competition, fail to reach the quarterfinals.
Nor will Caribbean cricket fans. Failure could see some of them turn on Lara, after suggestions that his refusal to tour Australia was merely a self-centred, ill-timed challenge to the West Indies cricket board.
The good news for them all is that the 27-year-old's comeback for Trinidad and Tobago against Barbados last month saw him score 77 and 199 — then suggest ominously.
"Even though 1 scored runs tn this game, my timing is not there yet. I badly need more tie in the middle."
The money men will be praying he gets Just that. A Lara less world Cup .would leave the sponsors crying Into their pillows at night.