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.
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.
The first order of business was meeting with Chris Thakoorpersad, Manager of the 2008 ICC and Wisden Cricketer of the Year Shiv Chanderpaul. Thakoorpersad affirmed Chanderpaul’s longterm commitment to supporting College Cricket in the United States and said.
The following is an article by Haydn Gill from the Red Stripe Quarterly 1993
When Clive Lloyd and Larry Gomes left the Test arena in the early 1980’s,the West Indies middle order lacked a worthy left hander for several years. Suddenly, three, Keith Arthurton, Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams,all products of the Northern Telecom youth championship,have come forward to suggest that they will serve as the backbone of the batting for the next decade.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was recently interviewed in New York by cricket enthusiast Albert Baldeo. The interview was published in the August 30th edition of the Cricket International newspaper here in New York.