SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL

'Shivnarine 'Shiv' Chanderpaul' (born 16 August, 1974 in Unity Village, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana) is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He captained the West Indies in fourteen Tests and sixteen One-Day Internationals. He joined Durham for the second half of the 2007 English county season.

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Career

2007 Tour of England

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Career

A West Indian cricketer of Indo-Guyanese ethnicity, the left-handed Chanderpaul is known for his doggedness and ability to stick on the wicket for long hours. He is infamous in the cricketing world for his very unorthodox front-on batting stance, although he shifts his body into a more conventional position when he plays the ball, thus making him a prolific scorer on both sides of the wicket. His stance allows him to get most of his runs behind the wicket.
Chanderpaul's first notable impact on Test cricket was as being the last batting partner of Brian Lara when Lara broke Gary Sobers' record of 365 not out in the fifth and final Test against England in 1993-94. Lara went on to make 375 before he was caught off Andrew Caddick's bowling, sharing a 219-run stand with Chanderpaul, who was left not out on 75.
Chanderpaul made his first Test century in his 19th Test match - after having scored 15 half-centuries in the preceding 18 matches. In the third of a five-Test series against India in 1996-97, he made 137
★ at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. He also featured with his Guyanese counterpart, and current West Indian captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, making 104 in chasing a world record 418 to win in the fourth innings of the final Test match versus Australia in 2002-03.
Chanderpaul's best first class score is 303
★ versus Jamaica for Guyana, and, despite his reputation as a dogged batsman, he has also made the fourth fastest century in Test cricket, scoring three figures in just 67 balls at the GCC Ground Bourda, Guyana, also in the 2002-03 series against Australia.
He was named captain of the West Indies in the first Test versus South Africa in March 2005 in Guyana, after seven senior players including captain Brian Lara were dropped in a sponsorship row. He emulated Graham Dowling to become only the second player to make a double century on debut as a Test captain, scoring an unbeaten 200 and making a sporting declaration in the first Test. It was announced that Lara would return to the team for the second Test, but Chanderpaul would retain the captaincy for the rest of the series. He was named to the squad of 20 for the World XI to face Australia in the Super Test in October 2005, but when the squad was cut to 14 names in August his name was not mentioned.
Chanderpaul remains one of the most recognisable faces in all of the West Indies, particularly his native Guyana, and he has come a long way from his first 50 in his first Test versus England in 1993-94 at Bourda to his current status as a former captain.
In April 2006, Chanderpaul resigned as West Indies captain in order to concentrate on his batting. He captained a weak West Indies team, and his record was not a successful one. In fourteen Tests he won one and lost ten with three draws. In sixteen One-Day Internationals, he won two and lost fourteen. Later in the month the captaincy was restored to veteran batman Brian Lara.
Chanderpaul has recently reached the milestone of 100 Test caps, the 8th West Indian to do so and the first of east Indian descent.

2007 Tour of England

With the Lara era of West Indian cricket at an end, Chanderpaul has emerged as the West Indies senior batsman. In the recent West Indies tour of England Chanderpaul averaged an amazing 148.66 with the bat. This included two undefeated centuries in the third and fourth test matches. In the third test match his 116 not out almost won the game for the West Indies, until wickets of tail-end batsmen began to fall quickly which left him stranded due to his position at no 5 in the batting order, however in the recent One Day International against England he was promoted to No 3.During the test Chanderpaul averaged over 8 hours per dissmisal
England captain Michael Vaughan was moved to remark that it was the finest test innings he had ever seen. During the third test match Chanderpaul went past 7000 runs in test cricket, a feat only accomplished by six other West Indians: Brian Lara, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Garfield Sobers, Desmond Haynes, Gordon Greenidge and Clive Lloyd.
He was jointly named Man of the Series alongside England's Monty Panesar.
Some of his more quirkier traits include having "baseball-style" tape under his eyes, which he started wearing after a successful run scoring spree in the United States, and using a bail from the stumps to "mark his guard". He also tends to struggle for physical fitness- You will rarely see Chanderpaul score a century without struggling at some stage with cramps, and he hardly ever takes to the field after posting a three figure score.
Chanderpaul is one of the few players to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this three times, and is the only player to have done so more than once. He is also the only recognised world class player in a perpetually weak West Indian test team. At the age of 33, he still has the appearance of a young boy at the crease, but his worth to the West Indies batting lineup is immense.

References

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★ Interview from Yahoo!

★ ''Chanderpaul resigns as captain'' from Cricinfo