Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Full Name     : Shivnarine Chanderpaul 

Date of Birth : 16th August 1974

Place of Birth: Unity Village, Guyana 

Nick Name     : 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 

Test Debut    : 17th March 1994 v England 

ODI Debut     : 17th October 1994 v India 

Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul  is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.

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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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 with 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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  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.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 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 CaribbeanIn 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

Chanderpaul is one of only six players to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket.  Shivnarine Chanderpaul  has done this four times, and is the only player to have done so more than once. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is also the only batsman in the history of Test cricket to have faced 1000 consecutive balls without getting out. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 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. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 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. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is one of only three players to score half-centuries in seven consecutive Test innings. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the second West Indies batsman after Brian Charles Lara (11,953 runs) to score 9000 or more runs in test cricket. 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 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.

The column title Match refers to the Match Number of his career. 

Test Centuries of Shivnarine Chanderpaul

# 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 

24 118 136  India Delhi, India Feroz Shah Kotla 2011 Lost 

One Day International Centuries

One Day International Centuries of Shivnarine Chanderpaul 

# 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