Mike Atherton, Chief Cricket Correspondent
Scarcely commented upon, it was. No doubt throwing garlands around a West Indies player was felt to be inappropriate during another supine performance from the touring team, but when Shivnarine Chanderpaul flicked Graham Onions for four in the final over of the fourth day, he went past Vivian Richards as the second-highest run-scorer in Tests for West Indies.
AS long as the rain and the gloom that obliterated the entire second day of the second Test here yesterday relents, an improbable statistical record is likely to be established before the weekend is out.
It is one that confirms, yet again, the contrasts and the variety that make cricket such a great and fascinating game.
The No1 batsman in the world admits it’s always about him against the rest of the world, whether it’s battles with personalities, the media or leading the West Indies
Trinidadian singer De Alberto dedicates a wonderful song to West Indies Great Chanderpaul. Here is Chanderpaul by De Alberto, enjoy!
By Scyld Berry
We introduce the Wisden Test XI. The aim is to recognise the best Test cricketers of the calendar year, and to endorse Test cricket as the highest, most skilled, form of the game, the least subject to the intrusion of time.