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LARA: Consistency is key for Windies at World Cup

West Indies and the world batting champion Brian Lara and his daughter Tyla.

The West In­dies se­nior men’s team holds an out­side chance at win­ning the 2019 ICC Crick­et World Cup in Eng­land and Wales which bowls-off on May 30 but must im­prove on its con­sis­ten­cy ac­cord­ing to West In­dies bat­ting leg­end Bri­an Lara.

Speak­ing at his res­i­dence at Chan­cel­lor Hill in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Lara, who holds the world's bat­ting record of 400 Test runs, gave the re­gion­al team the ‘dark-horse’ billing for the tour­na­ment, warn­ing that the re­gion­al team could strug­gle in the World Cup’s new for­mat, which re­quires the ten teams to play against each oth­er in round-robin match­es dur­ing the pre­lim­i­nary stage be­fore mov­ing to the se­mi-fi­nal.

“My dark-horse is the West In­dies. They just crept in­to the World Cup by win­ning (qual­i­fiers) in Zim­bab­we, so I’d love to see West In­dies clinch it.”

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