– “This is for the benefits of the youths”- Chanderpaul
There is a popular idiom that ‘charity begins at home’, and that saying is being perfectly exemplified by two outstanding sons of the soil who are collaborating to give their home ground at Unity a face-lift.
– Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s 23rd Test hundred was arguably his most important at a time when the WICB viewed his career as heading downhill
By Avenash Ramzan
Muhammed Ali once said, “it’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”
What more can one say about Shivnarine Chanderpaul that has not already been said? Consistent, dependable, determined, dour, doughty, gritty, immovable, professional, rock-like, single-minded and other adjectives to the same effect have all been used repeatedly to describe the batting of the man from Unity and the most recent honorary citizen of Dominica. Granted, almost no one calls him classical, dazzling, elegant, entertaining, powerful or stylish, but his remarkable powers of concentration, his fighting qualities and his unwillingness to sell his wicket cheaply, as exemplified by his undefeated, match-saving 116 in the Second Test against India, have won him admiration and plaudits around the world.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]arwickshire will become Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s third English employers after he completes Test duties in the West Indies
Warwickshire have pulled off a significant coup with the signing of West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the last two months of the season.
Colin E. H. Croft
You would think that I am mad, but I am very sure that I knew Shivnarine “Tiger” Chanderpaul long before he was born. I knew of him perhaps before his father thought of him!
I believe that we should all be very pleased to be alive to celebrate Shiv’s record-breaking achievement of becoming the most capped West Indies Test player ever, with, now, 133 Tests.