THE CHAUFFEUR EXPERIENCE

Talking about his first ever visit to England on tour in 1991, Lara recollected how he had bowled 25 overs in a tour game and also became Sir Viv Richards' driver on the tour, but never got a chance to play a Test match.

"I was the perpetual water-boy in those days. Viv Richards asked if someone wanted to bowl and I immediately put up my hand. I bowled leg-breaks and googlies and eventually I bowled 7 overs and said I was down. But he threw the ball back at me. By the end my figures were 25 overs, none for 130," Lara said.

"Afterwards Viv threw the keys of the car he was gifted to me and he sat at the passenger's seat. After that I knew all the roads in England as I became his driver, the only strip that I wanted to drive on was the 22 yards on cricket field but I never got a chance to play in that tour," he said.