Brian Lara apologised over the public address system at the Carlton Club on Friday for his reaction to a disputed dismissal the day before in a Caribbean cricket championship match.
Lara, who scored 54 on the first day of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carib Beer Cup match with Barbados, angrily slapped a plastic chair with his bat as he made his way into the pavilion after being given out.
”I just want to apologise publicly for my behavior yesterday [Friday],” Lara announced to a few hundred spectators before play began on the second day. ”Sorry about that.”
The West Indies star, who has a reputation of walking off when he knows he is out, had been given out to a disputed catch low down at cover off his international teammate Ian Bradshaw.
Match referee Carlyle Carter said he spoke to Test cricket’s greatest runmaker and Trinidad’s management about the incident but took no further action.
”On his dismissal on entering the pavilion, he [Lara] was a bit indiscreet in his behaviour,” Carter said. – Sapa-AP