Following in Shiv’s footsteps

Sun, Sep 7, '14

by TONY COZIER

SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL had to wait into the late afternoon on the opening day of the first Test against Bangladesh in St Vincent on Friday before he could start his first Test innings as a 40-year-old.

By the time he got in, Kraigg Brathwaite was already past his second Test hundred; 19 years, 144 Tests and 27 hundreds his junior, the opening batsman’s single-minded defiance, driven by unwavering concentration, mark him as an unmistakable Chanderpaul clone.