Brian Lara, one of the greatest batsmen of all times, didn't find any takers for him in the 4th edition of the IPL 2011 players' auction. The West Indies cricket icon joined the likes of Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Herschelle Gibbs and Jesse Ryder to be left out of the IPL 4. None of the 10 IPL teams placed any bid for the man who holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004. He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.
