Decline of a rare breed
Sun, May 10, '15
TO use the contemporary idiom, there will be an elephant in the room when Clive Lloyd and his fellow selectors choose the West Indies team for the first Test against Australia in Dominica June 3-7.
Since it applies to a player with the nickname of an altogether more ferocious animal, the expression may be somewhat incongruous but, however much the panel finds it difficult to determine the immediate future of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a cricketer with an outstanding past, the issue cannot be dodged.
The questions to be answered are obvious.
Do Lloyd and his colleagues interpret the sudden, dramatic slump of the one, consistently reliable West Indies batsman during the continuing period of decline as the immediate end to his extraordinary career?
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