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Shivnarine Chanderpaul talks about batting long, batting with his son, and batting against Australia

Mon, May 23, '16

by CRISPIN ANDREWS

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My father, Khemraj, put up a net alongside our house, in Unity, a village near Georgetown, Guyana. Our back garden was right next to the local cricket club.

The West Indies selectors asked me to retire from one-day internationals after the 2011 World Cup and then dropped me when I wouldn't. My ODI record was good. Since 2006, I scored 3497 runs at an average of 53. Obviously I was upset about it.

Rotating the strike is one of the most important batting skills, particularly when things are tight, bowlers are on top and it's hard to pierce the field.

Brandon [son] and I put on 256 in a club game in Guyana, and we both scored centuries. Brandon was out there telling me what he would do and what he wouldn't do. I told him to calm down and play the situation, look for the best places to hit the ball.

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