Brian Lara of the West Indies made his Test debut on December 6, 1990
Former Trinidadian international cricketer Brian Charles Lara is regarded as one of the game's finest batsmen. Brian Lara of the West Indies made his Test debut on December 6, 1990, when he was just 21 years old. In that game, he came within six runs of reaching his first Test fifty, but he went on to amass nearly 12,000 runs in Test cricket.
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