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Shivnarine Chanderpaul
- Age
- 52y 74d
- Bats
- Left-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm leg break
- From
- Unity Village
- Age
- 52y 74d
- Bats
- Left-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm leg break
- From
- Unity Village
Shivnarine Chanderpaul made his international debut for West Indies in 1994 and went on to become the most dependable figure in a batting order that often struggled. His front-on, crab-like stance drew criticism for its lack of elegance, yet his value lay in staying at the crease while others fell around him. For much of his early career he played in the shadow of Brian Lara, and once Lara retired, Chanderpaul shouldered the burden largely by himself. His maiden Test hundred did not arrive until his 19th match, by which point he had already passed fifty 15 times in his first 18 Tests.
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For all his reputation as a patient accumulator, he could attack when needed. Against Australia in 2002 he reached three figures in only 67 balls, then ranked as the fourth-fastest century in Test history. He also made 104 in Antigua when West Indies successfully chased a record 418 against the Australians. Appointed captain for the 2005 home series against South Africa, he marked his first Test in charge with an unbeaten 200 in Guyana, becoming just the second player to score a double hundred on debut as Test captain.
The captaincy itself brought little success, and he gave it up in 2006 to focus on batting. The decision paid off. On the 2007 tour of England he averaged nearly 150, with unbeaten centuries in the third and fourth Tests, and although West Indies lost the series, his runs helped narrow the defeats. In 2008 he piled up 442 runs in 3 home Tests against Australia, and he was named both a Wisden Cricketer of the Year and the ICC player of the year for 2008. In one-day cricket he contributed to the West Indies triumph at the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, and at the 2006 edition he moved up from the middle order to open, helping the side reach the final.
His consistency continued well into his later years. During the 2012 home series against Australia he made 103 not out, 12, 94, 68 and 69, totalling 346 runs across five innings. The unbeaten hundred at Kensington Oval took him past Lara as the leading run scorer at that venue, while his two half-centuries at Roseau made him only the second West Indian, after Lara, to reach 10,000 Test runs. That same year he turned out for Uva Next in the first Sri Lanka Premier League.
