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HEADLINE: Shivnarine Chanderpaul talks about batting long, batting with his son, and batting against Australia
CaribbeanCricket.com
2016-05-23 07:16:39
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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shivnotout
2016-05-23 10:10:14
Maybe I didn't get so much credit as some of the other [West Indian] guys. Perhaps that's because of the way I bat, because I'm not such an attacking player. But I get enough credit for what I've done and I'm thankful for it.
nickoutr
2016-05-23 13:44:44
In reply to shivnotout
This guy who post this article works with the pharmaceutical company .... prozak sales just went thru the roof ... the Shiv haters are being traumatized once again 
Devin
2016-05-23 13:54:24
Shiv had some real gems in that interview.
djdrastic
2016-05-23 13:59:44
Thanks for the link.
Great reading.
djdrastic
2016-05-23 14:02:10
West Indies regional cricket, people bowl fast, but they bowl all over the place and don't test the batsman's skills. You get a lot of short balls, but it doesn't prepare a young player for international cricket, where bowlers test your skills. We've got some good young fast bowlers around, but they need to learn about bowling consistently in good areas.
Narper
2016-05-23 19:54:42
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.
Brandon is a bit too aggressive sometimes, like lots of youngsters. I'm trying to get him to realise that as an opening batsman you have to have a look at what the bowler is doing, and leave a few balls up front. You can't just go out there and smash everything.
Leave him alone Shiv.
Let him play all his shots.
In time he will know how to discriminate.
He is playing way too defensive in many of his FC knocks to date
natty_forever
2016-05-24 09:22:44
In reply to Narper... so which player did you coached to stardom?
Andy99
2016-05-24 10:31:28
Carl Hooper once thrashed 20 in two overs to get to his hundred, because Wasim Akram was warming up to bowl. Akram could do anything he wanted with the ball. He bowled Hooper in the next over.
True Pooper.
Narper
2016-05-24 11:26:44
In reply to natty_forever
In reply to Narper... so which player did you coached to stardom?
Many many of them from in front de TV
.....I have seen enough stars in my life....starting as a lil cub to international superstar...to be able to have informed opinion
Shiv was never a poker when he started...now he wants his son to start out as a poker
natty_forever
2016-05-24 11:28:07
In reply to Narper...okay sir, I succumb to your vastly superior knowledge.
p.s. I do not agree that's what Shiv wants, just wants him to be a bit more patient and not go chasing after every ball trying to score being an opener.
