Lara will say goodbye to ODIs after 2007 World Cup

8220;I hope I am not speaking out of turn but I do feel that the final two games in Trinidad will be the final ones in front of my home. There is nothing at home in the World Cup,8221; Lara said after his team beat India by four wickets to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match rubber.

This would make the two matches at Port-of-Spain a special occasion for the 8216;Prince of Trinidad8217;, who has compiled 9,551 runs in 267 ODIs at an average of 41.16. He has scored 19 hundreds and 58 fifties in his ODI career so far.

Prior to being appointed West Indies skipper for the third time, Lara had largely stayed away from one-dayers in the last few years, concentrating mainly on Test cricket, in which he is the all-time highest run-scorer. But the leadership responsibility brought him back to the shorter version of the game in which he seems to be now plotting a Caribbean revival.

The 1995 Wisden Cricketer of the Year may continue to showcase his enormous talents in Test cricket beyond the World Cup.