Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Personal information
Born	16 August 1974 (1974-08-16) (age 37) Unity Village, Guyana
Nickname	Shiv, Tiger, Chanders, Chanda, The Great Man
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm leg break
Role	Batsman
Relations	Lawrence Prittipaul (cousin)
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut	17 March 1994 v England
Last Test	6 November 2011 v India
ODI debut	17 October 1994 v India
Last ODI	6 February 2011 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1991–present	Guyana
2007–09	Durham
2008	Royal Challengers Bangalore
2010	Lancashire
2011–present	Warwickshire
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	133	268	273	379
Runs scored	9367	8778	19,944	12,162
Batting average	49.04	41.60	54.79	41.79
100s/50s	24/55	11/59	59/99	12/88
Top score	203*	150	303*	150
Balls bowled	1,680	740	4,634	1,681
Wickets	8	14	56	56
Bowling average	105.62	45.42	43.80	24.78
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	1/2	3/18	4/48	4/22
Catches/stumpings	50/–	73/–	141/–	109/–
Source: CricketArchive, 7 July 2011

Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974) is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean in the West Indies team to play 100 Tests for the West Indies and has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals. Chanderpaul is one of the top ranked batsmen in the world under the current ICC test rankings, and has previously been ranked as high as one.^[1]

Career

A West Indian cricketer of Indian origin, the left-handed Chanderpaul is known for his doggedness and ability to stick on the wicket for long hours. He is known in the cricketing world for his unorthodox front-on batting stance, although he shifts his body into a more conventional position when he plays the ball, thus making him a prolific scorer on both sides of the wicket. His stance allows him to get most of his runs behind the wicket. Chanderpaul is renowned for playing left arm spin bowlers by getting his pad outside the line of off-stump, and hiding his bat behind the pad, in imitation of a shot, but without the risk of edging the ball. Chanderpaul has close ties Trinidadian business mogul Wayne Armogan, who is the son of late Trinidadian Lester Armogan. Lester known as "Uncle Les" was a father to figure to Chanderpaul.

Chanderpaul's first notable impact on Test cricket was as being the last batting partner of Brian Lara when Lara broke Gary Sobers' record of 365 not out in the fifth and final Test against England in 1993–94. Lara went on to make 375 before he was caught off Andrew Caddick's bowling, sharing a 219-run stand with Chanderpaul, who was left not out on 75.

Chanderpaul made his first Test century in his 19th Test match – after having scored 15 half-centuries in the preceding 18 matches. In the third of a five-Test series against India in 1996–97, he made 137* at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. He also featured with his Guyanese counterpart, and former West Indian vice captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, making 104 in chasing a world record 418 to win in the fourth innings of the final Test match versus Australia in 2002–03.

Chanderpaul's best first class score is 303* versus Jamaica for Guyana, and, despite his reputation as a dogged batsman, he has also made the fourth fastest century in Test cricket, scoring three figures in just 67 balls at the Bourda, Guyana, also in the 2002–03 series against Australia. This innings was twice as quick as his next fastest, and took 267 deliveries fewer than he needed to reach 100 against India the previous season.^[2]

He was named captain of West Indies in the first Test versus South Africa in March 2005 in Guyana, after seven senior players including captain Brian Lara were dropped in a sponsorship row. He emulated Graham Dowling to become only the second player to make a double century on debut as a Test captain, scoring an unbeaten 200 and making a sporting declaration in the first Test. It was announced that Lara would return to the team for the second Test, but Chanderpaul would retain the captaincy for the rest of the series. He was named to the squad of twenty for the World XI to face Australia in the Super Test in October 2005, but when the squad was cut to fourteen names in August his name was not mentioned.

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Chanderpaul's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

Chanderpaul remains one of the most recognisable faces in all of the West Indies, particularly his native Guyana, and he has come a long way from his first fifty in his first Test versus England in 1993–94 at Bourda to his current status as a former captain.

In April 2006, Chanderpaul resigned as West Indies captain in order to concentrate on his batting. He captained a weak West Indies team, and his record was not a successful one. In fourteen Tests he won one and lost ten with three draws. In sixteen One Day Internationals, he won two and lost fourteen. Later in the month the captaincy was restored to veteran batsman Brian Lara.

Chanderpaul has recently reached the milestone of 100 Test caps, the 8th West Indian to do so and the first of East Indian descent.

2007 Tour of England

With the Lara era of West Indian cricket reaching a conclusion, Chanderpaul emerged as the West Indies senior batsman. In the 2007 West Indies tour of England, Chanderpaul averaged 148.66 with the bat. This included two undefeated centuries in the third and fourth Tests. His 116 not out in the third Test, almost won the game for the tourists, until wickets of tail-end batsmen began to fall quickly, leaving him stranded, as England completed a 60-run victory. During the third Test match Chanderpaul went past 7000 runs in Test cricket, a feat only accomplished by six other West Indians: Brian Lara, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Garfield Sobers, Desmond Haynes, Gordon Greenidge and Clive Lloyd. He was jointly named Man of the Series alongside England's Monty Panesar. Despite batting at number 5 in the Tests, he was promoted to number 3 in the following One Day International series.

His success saw him signed up by Durham for the second half of the 2007 English county season. For his efforts in England in 2007, and other batting performances, Chanderpaul was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2008. Chanderpaul's efforts with the bat continue to win him many accolades as he was named ICC player of the year for 2008.

2008 Sri Lankan and Australian tours to the Caribbean

In 2008 Chanderpaul continued in his form during the Sri Lankan and Australian tours of the Caribbean. During the 2008 season he rose to be ranked 5th in the Test batting rankings. By the end of the third test against Australia, Chanderpaul became the fourth West Indian batsman to accomplish 8000 runs in Test cricket as well as rising in the ranks to 2nd of the ICC test rankings, just 4 points shy of becoming the world's number 1 ranked batsman. In the Test match series against the Australians, Chanderpaul had amassed 442 runs in 6 innings, in 3 of which he had remained not out, at an average of 147.33, including two centuries and three half-centuries. From the West Indies second innings in the first Test, he was not dismissed until the final day of the series – more than 1,000 minutes of batting without losing his wicket-the fourth time he has achieved this feat in Test cricket.

Records

Chanderpaul holds a number of batting records, in particular:

• Chanderpaul is one of only six players to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this four times, and is the only player to have done so more than once.
• He is also the only batsman in the history of Test cricket to have faced 1000 consecutive balls without getting out.
• He is the one of only four batsmen to have averaged more than 100 in two different calendar years (*qualification 400 runs) and the only one other than Sir Donald Bradman to do so in consecutive years.
• Chanderpaul has scored the fourth fastest Test Hundred off 69 balls in the history of the game against Australia at Georgetown, Guyana.
• He is currently the second highest run scorer for the West Indies, with over 8000 test runs, having overtaken Viv Richards on 17 May 2009, only Brian Lara has scored more.
• He is one of only three players to score half-centuries in seven consecutive Test innings.
• He is the second West Indies batsman after Brian Charles Lara (11,953 runs) to score 9000 or more runs in test cricket.
• He is the most capped Test player of West Indian Cricket history as he has now stood in 133 Test Matches.

Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out.
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of his career.

Test Centuries of Shivnarine Chanderpaul[3]
#	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	137*	19	India	Bridgetown, Barbados	Kensington Oval	1997	Won
2	118	28	England	Georgetown, Guyana	Bourda	1998	Won
3	140	52	India	Georgetown, Guyana	Bourda	2002	Drawn
4	101*	54	India	Bridgetown, Barbados	Kensington Oval	2002	Won
5	136*	55	India	St. John's, Antigua	Antigua Recreation Ground	2002	Drawn
6	140	61	India	Kolkata, India	Eden Gardens	2002	Drawn
7	100	64	Australia	Georgetown, Guyana	Bourda	2003	Lost
8	104	66	Australia	St. John's, Antigua	Antigua Recreation Ground	2003	Won
9	109	70	South Africa	Durban, South Africa	Kingsmead	2003	Lost
10	101*	76	Bangladesh	Kingston, Jamaica	Sabina Park	2004	Won
11	128*	77	England	London, England	Lord's	2004	Lost
12	203*	81	South Africa	Georgetown, Guyana	Bourda	2005	Drawn
13	127	84	South Africa	St. John's, Antigua	Antigua Recreation Ground	2005	Drawn
14	153*	85	Pakistan	Bridgetown, Barbados	Kensington Oval	2005	Won
15	116*	103	England	Manchester, England	Old Trafford	2007	Lost
16	136*	104	England	Chester-le-Street, England	Riverside Ground	2007	Lost
17	104	105	South Africa	Port Elizabeth, South Africa	St George's Park	2007	Won
18	118	110	Australia	Kingston, Jamaica	Sabina Park	2008	Lost
19	107*	111	Australia	North Sound, Antigua	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium	2008	Drawn
20	126*	114	New Zealand	Napier, New Zealand	McLean Park	2008	Drawn
21	147*	119	England	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Queen's Park Oval	2009	Drawn
22	166	125	South Africa	Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis	Warner Park	2010	Drawn
23	116*	133	India	Roseau, Dominica	Windsor Park	2011	Drawn
24	111*	136	Template:Country data Ind	Delhi, India	Firoj Shah Kotla Stadium	2011	Lost One Day International Centuries One Day International Centuries of Shivnarine Chanderpaul[4] # Runs Match Against City/Country Venue Year Result 1 109* 42  India Bridgetown, Barbados Kensington Oval 1997 Won 2 150 56  South Africa East London, South Africa Buffalo Park 1999 Won 3 108* 114  New Zealand Gros Islet, St Lucia Beausejour Stadium 2002 Won 4 101 205  Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan National Stadium 2006 Lost 5 149* 206  India Nagpur, India VCA Ground 2007 Lost 6 102* 211  Ireland Kingston, Jamaica Sabina Park 2007 Won 7 116* 219  England Birmingham, England Edgbaston 2007 Won 8 127* 223  Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe Harare Sports Club 2007 Lost 9 107* 237  Pakistan Abu Dhabi, UAE Sheikh Zayed Stadium 2008 Lost 10 112* 243  England Providence, Guyana Providence Stadium 2009 Won 11 101 257  Canada Kingston, Jamaica Sabina Park 2010 Won References Zaltzman, Andy. "Unpredictability." Cricinfo, 5 April 2009. Player profile: Shivnarine Chanderpaul from ESPNcricinfo Shiv Chanderpaul Fan Site Chanderpaul's record innings puts Windies on top Interview from Yahoo! Chanderpaul resigns as captain from Cricinfo Chanderpaul signs up for Hong Kong Cricket Sixes Notes ^ Current Test Batting Rankings from the ICC ^ Zaltzman 2009. ^ Statsguru: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Cricinfo, 12 March 2010. ^ Statsguru: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Cricinfo, 12 March 2010. Preceded by Brian Lara West Indies Test cricket captains 2004/05–2006 Succeeded by Brian Lara Preceded by Ricky Ponting Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy 2008 Succeeded by Mitchell Johnson Persondata Name Chanderpaul, Shivnarine Alternative names Short description Date of birth 16 August 1974 Place of birth Unity Village Date of death Place of death