Sunday, Aug 05, 2007
By RAMACHANDRA GUHA
It’s tough batting for 1,000 minutes without getting dismissed. Shivnarine Chanderpaul has done it thrice.
Photo: AFP
Rare grit: Shivnarine Chanderpaul kisses the wicket after scoring 100 runs against England during the fourth cricket test at The Riverside.
When Shivnarine Chanderpaul made his Test debut, back in the early 1990s, I recall reading a profile of him that spoke of the advice given to him when he was growing up. “Dee man Gavaskar,” his father told young Shiv, “Dee man Gavas kar, if he make more than fifty, he always get to a hundred.”
