The king is back.....

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[b][size=12pt]Rocks sign Lara, Sidebottom for T20[/size][/b]

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Zimbabwean franchise Southern Rocks have signed former West Indies batsman Brian Lara and ex-England left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom for the Stanbic Bank Twenty20 competition, which will start in Harare on November 13.

Lara, for many years regarded alongside Sachin Tendulkar as one of the best batsmen of his era, retired after the 2007 World Cup and has not played much competitive cricket since.

However, Lara had a stint with the unofficial Indian Cricket League in 2007-08, where he had a forgettable tournament with the bat and as captain of Mumbai Champs, and has maintained ambitions of coming out of retirement to try his hand at Twenty20 - a format that hadn't taken off internationally when he retired.

He was briefly in talks to play for Surrey in the English domestic Twenty20 tournament last season, and though those discussions fell through Lara was part of the MCC team that played the touring Pakistanis in a Twenty20 at Lord's in June, striking a 32-ball 37 before he was bowled by an Umar Gul yorker.

[dalapathi]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MxBbwcgG0&feature=related#ws]Sachin Tendulkar - LARA is my Favourite[/url]

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[govardhan]

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