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February 6, 2023 West Indies

Chanderpaul not out – one way Tagenarine could prove more useful than Shivnarine

2 minute readIn 2012, we wrote a piece for Cricinfo about Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s patient wait for a West Indies Test team worthy of his contributions. Little did we know he wasn’t just waiting; he was taking active steps. ‘Taking active steps’ is an interesting euphemism because what we’re saying is that Shiv’s

February 11, 2016 Australia / West Indies

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s take on specific training

< 1 minute readDavid Warner said that back in 2012, he saw Shivnarine Chanderpaul put in a six-hour shift against the bowling machine. “I said ‘This is ridiculous, how can you do this?’ and he said: ‘If you’re going to bat for six hours in a game you might as well practise it.’”

January 23, 2016 West Indies

Shivnarine Chanderpaul – the last great West Indies cricketer

3 minute readThe world’s coaching manuals can breathe a sigh of relief because the greatest dissident of modern times has officially called it a day. No-one who remains will question them quite so persuasively. Cricket’s lost a lot. The start and end When Shivnarine Chanderpaul made his Test debut, he did so

June 5, 2015 England / West Indies

This is the way a cricket career ends, not with a bang

2 minute readHurray! Friday! Let’s celebrate by writing about melancholy exits! We’ve sadly had two recently. Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s international career ended just as he imagined it would when he first took up the sport as a boy, with a WhatsApp exchange between Test series. Meanwhile, Craig Kieswetter has had to call it

April 2, 2015 Extras / West Indies

The man who wrote his own textbook in illegible handwriting

< 1 minute readOur final King of Cricket appeared on the All Out Cricket website a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t link to it at the time because we thought it would get lost amid all the World Cup stuff. We didn’t want that to happen because it’s Shiv and you all

November 11, 2014 Pakistan / West Indies

Shivnarine Chanderpaul talking about Wasim Akram

< 1 minute readRahul Bhattacharya’s piece about Shivnarine Chanderpaul in the November issue of The Cricket Monthly is full of highlights, not least because a man who is himself one of our favourite cricketers also seems to revere exactly the same players we do. He describes how Brian Lara would sometimes put spin

January 24, 2013 West Indies

The next Chanderpaul

< 1 minute readNormally, when someone talks about ‘the next so-and-so’ it’s a load of old cobblers, but there really is another Chanderpaul – it’s Shiv’s son. Even better, he’s almost, but not quite, named after a fruit. Tagenarine Chanderpaul is set to make his first-class debut in February, even though he’s only

May 21, 2012 West Indies

A second Shiv

< 1 minute readFor all that cricket is a team game, West Indies are only one Shiv away from being literally unbeatable. England basically took wickets at one end only throughout this match and Marlon Samuels gave an indication what would happen were a second Shivnarine Chanderpaul to come to the crease. In

April 27, 2012 West Indies

A tribute to Shivnarine Chanderpaul

< 1 minute readShiv has just hit his 10,000th run and Cricinfo wanted someone to pay tribute to him. Being as we named him not just Lord Megachief of Gold, but Grand Lord Megachief of Gold, we were well-placed to pass comment. For some reason, our idea of a tribute is to describe

April 9, 2012 West Indies

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is still gloriously risk averse

< 1 minute readAustralia celebrated when they dismissed the West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite for 57 off 199 balls. As an achievement, it was like flouncing over a stile before tackling the mountain. Shivnarine Chanderpaul promptly walked to the crease and only departed when Darren Sammy declared. Shiv simply cannot be bothered being dismissed.