‘Twenty20 no test for me’

“I don’t think it (Twenty20) tests the ability of players like Tests do. But it is good for the crowd. You are playing a sport, and sport is all about spectators,” Lara was quoted as saying by the Khaleej Times. However, Lara added that: “Our immediate priority is to defend the Champions Trophy in October.”

Lara also said he planned to tell his story through a book, which would be launched during next years’s World Cup in the Caribbeans.

“I am writing a book about my life and am trying to release it during the coming World Cup,” Lara told Gulf News.

“Nowadays I spend a lot of time on writing. I am in the process of writing this book, which will tell my story. I have spoken to a literary agent,” he added. “This book will reveal my life story. It is not going to be a hundred per cent cricket-oriented book. It will be interlocked with cricket and many moments of my life that the fans don’t know about me,” he added.