Cricket: Lara to help out Zimbabwe

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West Indies cricket legend Brian Lara has joined Zimbabwe as a batting consultant.

Lara will work with the Zimbabwe players during the ICC World Cup in the subcontinent early next year ahead of their return to the test arena, against Bangladesh in May.

Lara retired from first-class cricket in 2008 but is currently playing for local Zimbabwean team in a Twenty20 tournament.

Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of the modern era, Lara hit 34 centuries in 131 tests with a world-record score of 400 not out and an average of 52.88.

- NEWSTALK ZB