Brian Lara Cricket Academy

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The Brian Lara Cricket Academy is a multi-purpose stadium in Tarouba, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, that was completed and inaugurated in 2017. It will be used mostly for cricket matches. It is located in southern Trinidad, just outside the heart of the city of San Fernando, beside the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, about two kilometres southeast of Trinidad and Tobago's former cricket ground at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre. Built to hold 15,000 people in a mix of fixed seating and grass banks it is named after former West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara, who until 17 October 2008 was the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket, until he was surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar, the 2-time test match record holder with scores of 375 and 400 * both against England at the Antigua Recreation Ground in Antigua and Barbuda in 1994 and 2004 respectively and the first-class cricket record of 501 * which he scored against Durham County Cricket Club in 1994. It was initially planned to host warm-up matches during the 2007 Cricket World Cup and serve as a cricket academy after the tournament. However, when it became apparent that the facility would not be completed in time for the tournament, the warm-up matches were instead hosted at the Frank Worrell Field at UWI St Augustine. The Caribbean Premier League chose the Brian Lara Cricket Academy as the host for the final matches of

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