Brian Lara: Sporting Legends Slot Review

Brian Lara: Sporting Legends Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Brian Lara: Sporting Legends slot is played using 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. To create a winning combination, you need to land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1.

Bet levels range from between 10p and £500 per spin. Use the + and – keys next to the Total Bet Box to adjust your stake size. Click on the i icon to open the paytable. Payout amounts are displayed as cash values, relative to your current bet level. It’s all very easy to follow.

The Brian Lara: Sporting Legends RTP is 96.08% which is slightly better than average. The actual RTP rate is 94.08% with 2% going towards funding the progressive jackpots.

The variance is in the middle range with the bigger wins coming from the jackpots obviously. Jackpots aside, you can win up to 5,120 x your total stake per spin.

Theme – go into bat with the West Indian legend

If you’re not much of a cricket lover, a quick primer on the great Brian Lara. The Trinidadian left-hander is one of the greatest batsmen of all time. His score of 400 not out against England in 2004 is the highest ever in international Test cricket. Lara also holds the record for the highest score in domestic first-class cricket after a mammoth inning of 501 not out for Warwickshire in 1994. Lara is a true legend of the game.

The setting in the Brian Lara: Sporting Legends slot is a Caribbean cricket ground packed full of adoring fans and Jamaican, Barbadian and Trinidadian flags. Accompanying the action here is a reggae soundtrack which creates a cracking Caribbean atmosphere.

The reels are made up of lower value A to 10 royals and higher paying cricket-themed objects. They include batting gloves, a helmet and a bat as well as 3 different Brian Lara symbols. The best paying symbol is Brian Lara lifting up a trophy. This symbol spins in stacked formation. Land 5 on adjacent reels for an award equal to 5 x your total stake.

The gold trophy is the wild symbol. This can land on reels 2, 3 and 4 only and substitute for all the standard symbols when it makes up part of a winning combination. The game comes with 2 scatters, both of which can land on reels 1 and 5 only. There are red and gold cricket balls, both of which can trigger a feature.

Brian Lara: Sporting Legends Mobile

Produced using HTML5 technology, Brian Lara: Sporting Legends is available to play on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. The simple 5×4 reel layout works well on all devices, including smaller handhelds.

Brian Lara: Sporting Legends Bonus Features

Lara’s batting technique was simple but deadly effective. The gameplay here is also on the straightforward side. This isn’t a slot that’s overloaded with extras. There are 3 bonus features to get stuck into though where extra wilds and bonus spins can have a big impact.

The Batter Bonus Spin feature

The Batter Bonus Spin feature triggers when you land a scatter symbol on the bottom 2 positions on reels 1 and 5 on the same spin. You’ll then see Lara face a series of balls from the bowler.

He smashes these onto random positions on the reels. Between 2 and 6 symbol positions will then turn wild. A bonus spin is then awarded with the newly struck wilds in position.

The Golden Batter Bonus Spin feature

The Golden Batter Bonus Spin feature is very similar to the standard The Batter Bonus Spin feature. Once again, it’s triggered by landing golden scatter symbols on the either of the bottom 2 positions on reels 1 and 5 on the same spin.

The animated Lara again takes to the crease and smashes the bowling to create between 2 and 6 new wild positions. A free bonus spin then follows. The difference here though is that only high value symbols can land during the Golden bonus spin.

Sporting Legends Jackpot feature

Brian Lara: Sporting Legends is part of Playtech’s Sporting Jackpots progressive network. The Sporting Legends Jackpot feature can trigger at random on any spin and at any stake level. 2% of each bet contributes to the jackpot fund with 84.5% going to the current jackpots with the remaining 15.5% going to seed the next jackpots.

That means you’ll have a chance to scoop Daily, Weekly or Mega Jackpots. You can check out the current value of the progressive prizes in the meter above the reels in the real money version (not in the demo shown here at Online-Slot.co.uk). However, here are the actual jackpots in real-time:

Brian Lara: Sporting Legends Review Summary – a simple jackpot slot

We love cricket but understand why some people might find the game a little dull from time to time. You could say the same about the Brian Lara: Sporting Legends slot in fact, even though it’s based on one of the most flamboyant batsman in the history of the game.

The only extras are The Bonus Batter and Golden Batter Spins feature. They’re perfectly decent in their own right but it’s not the most exciting set of features.

Like the other slots in this series, the main attraction here is the Sporting Legends Jackpots, which can deliver some potentially enormous prizes. If you prefer horse racing, Frankie Dettori: Sporting Legends is an option.

I’m still waiting for the great cricket-themed slot. Brian Lara: Sporting Legends isn’t quite it, but if you like progressive jackpot action, it is worth taking to the crease here. In summary, there are better jackpot slots, though, such as Games Global’s Mega Moolah, NetEnt’s Mega Fortune and Big Time Gaming’s Bonanza Megapays.