Chanderpaul: Red Force can recover
Legendary West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is adamant this is merely a “bad patch” that the T&T Red Force team is experiencing thus far in the ongoing West Indies Regional Four-Day Championship.
T&T Red Force has started the season with two losses and a win. However, Chanderpaul feels that there is no need to panic.
“You have a lot of talented cricketers here. Sometimes, you go through a bad patch," he said. "I could remember we went through a bad patch and we learned from it and moved on.”
The former Windies captain was recently in Trinidad, coaching the USA Universities team that is currently competing in the University of the West Indies (UWI) World Universities T20 Cricket Tournament in St Augustine.
Midway through the tournament, however, Chanderpaul had to fly back to his homeland after assuming the role of assistant coach of the Guyana Jaguars team.
“Trinidad has always been like a home to us. We would come here and we would have a good time and we would enjoy ourselves,” said the unorthodox left-hander, who finished his Test cricket career with 11,867 runs.
Indeed, this country holds a special place in his heart. Trinidad is where he scored his first First-Class century, and the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain was the stage where he became a hero, 11 years ago.
With six runs required off the last ball to win the first One Day International (ODI) against Sri Lanka in 2008, Chanderpaul took two steps toward Chaminda Vaas and slotted him over deep mid-wicket to send the Queen’s Park Oval crowd into a frenzy.
T&T Red Force has started the season with two losses and a win. However, Chanderpaul feels that there is no need to panic.
“You have a lot of talented cricketers here. Sometimes, you go through a bad patch," he said. "I could remember we went through a bad patch and we learned from it and moved on.”
The former Windies captain was recently in Trinidad, coaching the USA Universities team that is currently competing in the University of the West Indies (UWI) World Universities T20 Cricket Tournament in St Augustine.
Midway through the tournament, however, Chanderpaul had to fly back to his homeland after assuming the role of assistant coach of the Guyana Jaguars team.
“Trinidad has always been like a home to us. We would come here and we would have a good time and we would enjoy ourselves,” said the unorthodox left-hander, who finished his Test cricket career with 11,867 runs.
Indeed, this country holds a special place in his heart. Trinidad is where he scored his first First-Class century, and the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain was the stage where he became a hero, 11 years ago.
With six runs required off the last ball to win the first One Day International (ODI) against Sri Lanka in 2008, Chanderpaul took two steps toward Chaminda Vaas and slotted him over deep mid-wicket to send the Queen’s Park Oval crowd into a frenzy.
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