Why Brian Lara, 53, still excites and may do so again in the 2022 Road Safety Series?

Brian Lara didn’t exactly set the last edition of the Road Safety Series on fire – did he?

With much regard to the batting legend, Lara excited but didn’t fully entertain.

The Prince of Trinidad scored 154 runs from 6 games, but remained unbeaten in two, one of which led to a fifty.

And that’s the thing about Brian Lara in the 2021 Road Safety Series that hurts and perhaps encourages in equal measure about what could be.

All that Lara managed was a solitary fifty in the previous round.

Which leads to a simple question: can Lara cover up for last year’s dearth of runs in the 2022 edition?

For starters, there’s no doubting the potential of a man who romanticized the art of playing big innings and at peak, made mad runs for fun.