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Norm 2020-04-08 13:56:44 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul last ball six vs Sri Lanka - 1st ODI 2008. That famous finish - what coolness under pressure from Chanderpaul.

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Norm 2020-04-08 13:58:01 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 100 off 69 balls 1st test vs Australia 2003 Guyana. Incredible strokeplay by Shiv!

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Norm 2020-04-08 14:02:16 

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 150 vs South Africa at EAST LONDON 1999. A rare success on that tour. Watch Shiv's magnificent attacking shots. The commentator even called him "Lara" by mistake.

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Norm 2020-04-08 14:13:18 

Brett Lee's Bumper KO's Chanderpaul, but he gets up and fights on!!!

Date Published: 26-May-2008
Source: The Courier Mail (Aus)
Author: Ben Dorries

On the Sabina Park pitch yesterday Chanderpaul hit one of cricket's most courageous centuries, which was indicative of the West Indies' new fighting spirit as the world witnessed signs that the Calypso giant was awakening.

BATTERED but not bettered - Shivnarine Chanderpaul celebrates his century after being knocked unconscious by a Brett Lee bouncer when he was on 86. Source: The Courier-Mail
Chanderpaul's 118 was followed by a scary spell of new-ball bowling that put Australia (4-17) on the seat of its pants with a 136-run lead at stumps on day three. The man with the crab-like batting stance told how he could not feel his hands and feet after crumpling to the ground when struck on the back of the helmet by a Lee bumper when he had scored 86.

"I did not know where I was. My entire body went numb," Chanderpaul said. "I could not move my hands and I could not move my feet. However I told myself if I left the field we would have been in a bad state." Brain scans in hospital cleared Chanderpaul of serious injury but his courage, with his wife crying in the grandstands, set the tone for the Calypso fightback.

The West Indies, who have not won a series against a major Test nation in their past 16 attempts, enjoyed a dramatic resurgence and now believe they have the confidence to take the world champions down.

"The guys are starting to believe that, hey, we can actually do it," said coach John Dyson, a former Australian batsman. "They're enjoying their cricket more than they have for a long time, and consequently we're seeing them play some good stuff. We go out there to fight, no matter what the situation of the match."

After the West Indies were bowled out for 312, Australia's top order was reduced to rabble after hostile spells from first-innings hero Fidel Edwards and fellow opening bowler Darren Powell. Edwards put openers Phil Jaques (4) and Simon Katich (1) back in the dressing room and Powell got the key wickets of skipper Ricky Ponting (5) and Mike Hussey (1).

Both opening bowlers operated in the 140-145km/h range and the scenes late in the day, with a packed slips cordon and the Australian batsmen ducking and weaving, brought back memories of feared West Indian attacks of the 1980s. The late wicket of Hussey, who had his stumps rattled by Powell, was a particularly crucial breakthrough for the home side because Hussey is normally the glue that holds Australia's middle order together.

Lee, who snared three quick wickets for Australia earlier on day three, compared Chanderpaul's heroics to those of former Australian skipper Steve Waugh at the same Sabina Park venue in 1995.

"The West Indies are a very good side and they are going out here to try to prove a point, which is great," Lee said. In the West Indies' first innings, returning legspinner Stuart MacGill bowled waywardly to finish with figures of 2-100, but he chipped in to claim the first wicket of the third day when Runako Morton (67) holed out to a brilliant catch by Stuart Clark.

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:14:50 

Chanderpaul Brilliance In Vain

Date Published: 22-Jan-2007
Source: Stabroek News
Author: Stabroek Staff

Shivnarine Chanderpaul fashioned an innings of quite exceptional quality in this central Indian city yesterday but it was not enough to prevent defeat for the West Indies by 14 runs in the first of their four ODIs against India in the Pepsi Cup series.

His unbeaten 149 from 131 balls, with three sixes and 15 fours in all directions, was his seventh hundred in the shorter form of the game and his second in succession. But, like the one before, against Pakistan in Karachi five weeks ago, it was in vain.

Yet it stood out, even among many others on a day when batsmen thrived on a true pitch, fast outfield and in clear, warm sunshine to such an extent that they pummelled 16 sixes and 67 fours and amassed the highest run aggregate of any ODI played in India, 658 for 11 wickets.

It is rare for a player on the losing team to earn the Man-of-the-Match award. Here it was inevitable that the prize would be Chanderpaul’s, even set against a dashing 98, from 110 balls with three fours and 11 fours, by India’s returning former captain Saurav Ganguly that set the platform for India’s 338 for three.

Sent in by Brian Lara, India prospered throughout. Jerome Taylor’s opening over, that yielded 16, was an early hint of what was to follow. The tempo only subsided briefly for the remainder of the day, mainly in the mid-overs of both innings against the slow bowlers.

An opening stand of 144 from 24 overs between the left-handers Gautam Gambir and Ganguly, set India on their way. Gambir was the first of Chris Gayle’s two wickets, cutting the off-spinner’s third ball to point. Sachin Tendulkar, well below his best, was the second, lbw for 31 off 38 balls.

By then, India were 214 in the 37th over. When Ganguly was felled five runs later, two runs short of his 23rd ODI hundred by Dwayne Smith’s typically electric fielding, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and captain Rahul Dravid clouted seven sixes and seven fours between them in adding 119 off the last 11.5 overs.

Smith’s direct hit from cover to finish off Ganguly should have been followed by another run out for the fielding dynamo. But Gayle failed to gather his return at the bowler’s end from square-leg with Dhoni, then five, well short of his ground.

The miss proved decisive. The muscular wicket-keeper and Dravid proceeded to lash 66 off the last four overs to post India’s highest ODI total against the West Indies, equalling Australia’s 338 for five as the overall record.

Gayle and Marlon Samuels were the only bowlers able to restrain the rampant Indians with their brand of off-spin, even when yielding 104 from their combined 19 overs. Harbhajan and Sachin Tendulkar, pressed into service as the fifth bowler with his variety of off-breaks and leg-cutters, were to do the same for India.

The West Indies target was formidable but, on a ground noted for its high scores and in an age when Australia’s vice-captain Adam Gilchrist reasonably asserts that 400 will soon be the benchmark for 50 overs, not insurmountable.

Chanderpaul and Gayle, a study in contrasts all to the common factor of their left-handedness, immediately signalled that anything the Indian batsmen could do, so could they and their colleagues. Gayle, missed twice in the field, belted 10 fours in 52 off 46 balls in a partnership of 80 from 12.1 overs before he edged Harbhajan Singh’s off-break low to slip.

Runako Morton hadn’t a clue against Harbhajan’s doosra and was soon bowled. Marlon Samuels spent 60 balls over 40 in the middle overs as the required rate touched 10 runs an over.

When Lara belatedly arrived in the 34th over when Samuels was bowled swinging, a lot had to be done to get back on course. He immediately provided the necessary spark, to the scoring and to Chanderpaul. He hoisted both Tendulkar and Harbhajan for huge sixes, his re-energized partner took another off the fast bowler, Sreesanath, and their partnership of 96 from 7.2 overs left the requirement at exactly 100 off the last 10 overs with seven wickets intact.

The 30,000 or so packed into a stadium that had not hosted an international match since the West Indies were last in India four years ago – and winning an ODI on the back of Gayle’s 103 – became nervously stilled.

Lara’s dismissal off the third ball of the 41st over raised the roof again, especially as Tendulkar was the bowler. The wily home champion saw his West Indian counterpart advancing to launch another ball over the ropes, sent it wide and Dhoni completed the stumping. Lara’s 31 required only 23 balls and his dismissal was critical.

Dwayne Bravo busied himself with 17 off 11 balls but then edged Sreesanth to the ‘keeper.

Dwayne Smith already had an impact on the game with his fielding and his six overs but this was a situation made for his explosive batting – 80 to get from 38 balls. Once more, he muffed his lines, yorked, as he almost always is, third ball by Ajit Agarkar, It left Chanderpaul with too much to do. He scored 43 of the last 55 runs, including three successive fours off Sresanath and a six off Agarkar.

Twenty were required off the last over and no team has ever managed that in ODIs. Chanderpaul, by now thoroughly exhausted, could raise only five. It was a brave effort but not enough.

The second match in the series is in Cuttack, on the eastern coast, on Wednesday.

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:19:26 

Cacique Crown of Honour for Chanderpaul

Date Published: 17-Mar-2009
Source: GINA
Author: GINA staff

President Bharrat Jagdeo with West Indies Cricketers: ICC Cricketer of the Year Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Chris Gayle at the reception hosted at State House in honour of Chanderpaul’s achievement.
President Bharrat Jagdeo this evening at a reception hosted in honour of Guyana and West Indies’ star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, announced that the cricketer would be bestowed with the National award, the Cacique Crown of Honour. The Head of State said that Chanderpaul is a role model and complemented him on his batting. He urged the batsman to keep up the good work so that others could emulate him.

“Cricket is inter-related to our mood. It’s the well being of the people of our land and when they (cricketers) do well, we do well. It helps us at the political and economic level because when they perform well, people are motivated and it results in greater productivity in the economy,” the President said. The Guyanese Leader said that he was happy that Chanderpaul has returned home and noted that he has done his country proud.

“He has been a beacon for persistence and dedication, hard work and an example for many of our young cricketers not only in Guyana, but around the world. His example is what one could become if they persevere and make enough sacrifice,” the Head of State said.

“We are extremely proud of his achievement and particularly the people of our village (President and Chanderpaul’s hometown), Unity…we congratulate him for achieving this milestone and to show our appreciation he is going to receive one of the highest national award, that’s to show the token of our love and appreciation.”

Chanderpaul expressed his gratitude to the Head of State for the appreciation shown for his performance. Among those at the reception were Government Officials, President of the Guyana Cricket Board Chetram Singh, Chanderpaul’s family, friends and fellow villagers, Management team of the visiting English Cricket Team and players of the West Indies team.

Chanderpaul in September last was named the International Cricket Council’s cricketer of the year. He was also named the West Indies Players’ Association player of the year and was recognized for the fifth consecutive year as sportsman of the year for his country. Yesterday Chanderpaul was given a hero’s welcome as he arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony greeted the batsman at the airport while school children and fans lined the East Bank Demerara Road.

Chanderpaul made his debut in 1994 and to date has played 119 matches with a total of 8.502 runs, averaging about 50. He has amassed 21 centuries, 32 not out innings and 52 half centuries. Having earned the reputation as a steadfast batsman, who can stand at the crease for hours, Chanderpaul’s best first class score is 303 versus Jamaica for his home country. He has also served as captain of the West Indies team but resigned in 2006 to concentrate on his batting.

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:21:04 

New Garden St Renamed Shiv Chanderpaul Dr

Date Published: 21-Mar-2009
Source: GINA
Author: GINA staff

Georgetown, March 21, 2009 - In recognition of his outstanding achievement, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council today honoured West Indies batsman and International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the year, Shivnarine Chanderpaul by renaming New Garden Street, Georgetown Shivnarine Chanderpaul Drive.

Chanderpaul and family at the ceremony renaming a part of New Garden street in Shiv's honor. Bourda cricket ground can be seen in the background.
The star batsman, his wife and son unveiled the sign at a simple but significant ceremony to mark the occasion at the corner of Robb and New Garden Street. The event was witnessed by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall, Georgetown’s Mayor Hamilton Green, Deputy Mayor Robert Williams, President of the Guyana Cricket Board Chetram Singh and other well wishers.

Minister Lall said the historical event was not just for formality, but an appreciation of Chanderpaul’s achievements and for making Guyana proud. He noted that it is an honour for Government to name a part of the city after such a great person and outstanding batsman as Chanderpaul. He emphasized he is a role model not only for young aspiring cricketers, but for young people in general. Minister Lall said that he has shown young people that they can achieve many things in life when they work with astuteness and discipline.

Mayor Green stated that Chanderpaul is a young man that everyone will always remember and that drive will motivate people.

Chanderpaul expressed gratitude to the Government and Mayor for the gesture. President Bharrat Jagdeo hosted a reception ceremony on March 17 at State House for Chanderpaul in honour of his achievement where he announced he will be honoured with one of the highest National awards of Guyana, the Cacique Crown of Honour (C.C.H).

In September last, Chanderpaul was named the International Cricket Council’s (ICC’s) cricketer of the year. He was also named the West Indies Players’ Association player of the year and was recognized for the fifth consecutive year as sportsman of the year for his country. He made his debut in 1994 and to date has played 119 matches with a total of 8.502 runs, averaging about 50. He has amassed 21 centuries, 32 not out innings and 52 half centuries.

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:23:33 

Thank You, Tiger!

Date Published: 13-Jul-2011
Source: Kaieteur News
Author: Colin Croft

You would think that I am mad, but I am very sure that I knew Shivnarine “Tiger” Chanderpaul long before he was born. I knew of him perhaps before his father thought of him! I believe that we should all be very pleased to be alive to celebrate Shiv’s record-breaking achievement of becoming the most capped West Indies Test player ever, with, now, 133 Tests.

If we really appreciate our cricket and cricketers, we should give tremendously great homage to a guy who has survived everything thrown at him, even West Indies team captaincy, to soldier on, regardless!

By now, many would know that the little village of Unity-Lancaster, in the Mahaica area, up the East Coast of Demerara, in Guyana, with approximately 2,000 inhabitants, has produced two West Indies Test cricketers, “Chanders” and me. That is not bad at all, for such a little place!

To add to that, both outgoing President of Guyana’s Cricket Board, Chetram Singh and outgoing President of Republic of Guyana, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, are also our ‘country-men”, products of Unity-Lancaster. It would not be an idle boast to claim these achievements as being unique for any village.

I am very proud to be fortunate enough to have my name associated with these erstwhile performers, especially Shiv. While I did not know the two presidents well in their youth, I have come to know them fairly well in professional life. I certainly knew Chanders’ father, and uncle, ‘much better than well’!

Shiv’s father, Khemraj, popularly known to everyone by the call-name ‘Cow-fly’, must be the proudest man anywhere to acknowledge that his son has become the West Indies’ longest serving Test cricketer, in terms of Tests played, when Chanders started his 133rd Test in Rousseau, Dominica, last week.

What many do not know is that Khemraj was also a very good wicket-keeper/opening batsman. He was our team’s ‘keeper/opener when the village played against any other village team, and he was sufficiently good, and credible, that he had even been ‘called to trials’ for Guyana’s senior team.

The ‘cricket-in-the-blood’ syndrome does not end there for Chanders. His uncle, Munillall Chanderpaul, who was Khemraj’s older brother, and who was called ‘Bunn’ by everyone – I have no idea where those false names came from – was also as good a wicket-keeper/batsman as his younger brother, perhaps better. He too had been called up and even played for a few times for Guyana.

Amazingly, both were fishermen. They worked hard to feed their kids and families, toiling on sea, sometimes for days on end, before returning in time to play cricket at weekends. While we were primary school students, it was their boats that we ‘borrowed’ from Unity foreshore, when we needed to get crabs in the islands situated at the mouths of Mahaica and Mahaicony rivers!

Those were the days when everyone knew everyone else, and everything about everyone else too. Unity was Indo-centric, while Lancaster was Afro-centric. Yet, in Guyana, maybe anywhere else too, there were no other two places that could have been more safely racially integrated, all great friends!

Playing with, and against, these tough guys gave as good an education as could be gleaned from a Test. No-one’s feelings were spared, and the language could not always be printed, but fun, laughter, focus, seriousness, will and determination to win, for us all, were instilled in those simple village games.

No cricket games, in the 1960’s, maybe to this day, could have had more intensity than when Unity Government School played Lancaster Government School, either at the Unity cricket ground, or at the Mahaica Hospital cricket ground. Most times, almost the entire population of both villages attended.

Preparation of either cricket ground’s pitches had to be seen to be believed. All of us, the entire cricket team, and many other villagers too, helped the so-called groundsmen to prepare the pitches, with a smelly mixture of cow’s excrement and mud, to conjure up the hardest pitches I have ever seen.

We pushed heavy rollers, or cut much grass, with cutlasses and scythes. We even marked boundaries and return creases. Talk about community service; we all completed much of that. These were the freer days, when Shivnarine “Tiger” Chanderpaul was not even a twinkle in his father’s eye, or hopes.

The fruit, though, does not fall far from the tree! “Cow-fly” and “Bunn” were determined that their left-handed prodigy son, and nephew, when he arrived, would play cricket well. They ensured that everyone helped with his cricketing education. Even village dogs, cows and donkeys must have bowled to Shiv!

“Tiger” played cricket for Guyana’s Under-19 Youth team by the time he was 14! I am pretty sure that no-one in West Indies cricket could ever do that again, at least not in my lifetime, not with our present approach. We have too many coaches now who want their own input, so the naturalness is curtailed.

When Chanders made his first class debut, in 1991-92, I was still living in Florida. However, by the time he had impressed enough to be considered for West Indies, I was back in the Caribbean.

I had the great honour to be doing commentary, at Bourda Oval, in 1994, when he made his Test debut, against that year’s tourists, England. That cricket season started my sojourn into sports journalism.

I remember asking my former West Indies fast bowling partner, Andy Roberts, who, by 1994, was a West Indies selector, why he and his panel had selected Shiv to play against England. “He has much potential,” said Roberts. “If he continues his bowling, he could even be a genuine all-rounder!” Shiv bowled much more back then, but, it was his batting that made him so much more of an asset.

In 1991-92, aged seventeen years six months, Shiv got no wickets in his first two first-class games. He made 168 runs from four innings; avg. 56.00, being run out, for no score, in his first first-class innings. In 1992-93, Shiv played seven first-class games, making 356 runs, avg. 44.50, including his first first-class century, 140 n.o., at Bourda, against the touring Pakistanis. He also took eleven wickets that season.

In 1993-94, his Test debut year, Shiv made 708 runs from 10 matches, passed 1000 1st class runs, and averaged 50.57. He took 13 wickets too. He was indeed impressive. The rest is high class history too.

On August 16, “Tiger” Chanderpaul will be 37. Despite so many bumps along the way, he is still here!

Before his record-breaking 133rd Test, he already had 9228 Test runs, from 132 Tests, highest Test score 203 not out, v South Africa, at Bourda, avg. 48.56. He also has, overall, 19,266 1st class runs, from 267 games, highest score 303 not out, against Jamaica, avg. 53.96; really tremendous consistency.

Shiv should be celebrated around the cricket world as one who always had one singular purpose, to represent himself, family, heritage and region, to his very best ability. There is nothing more which anyone can do but to give everything in your life for a cause.

We should all be shouting “Thank you, Tiger!” I am! Enjoy!

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:24:40 

Lloyd Hails Chanderpaul’s Achievement

Date Published: 29-Apr-2012
Source: Guyana Times
Author: Rajiv Bisnauth

Eighteen years after his debut and 140 Test matches later, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has become the 10th player in Test history and only the second West Indian to score 10,000 Test runs, an achievement that has been applauded by his fellow countryman and legendary West Indies captain Clive Lloyd.

Lloyd in an exclusive interview with Guyana Times Sport on Saturday, described Chanderpaul as a dedicated cricketer whose ongoing pursuit of excellence now appeared to be paying dividends.

“Persistence always pays off and I must congratulate Chanderpaul who has done extremely well for himself and West Indies cricket over the years,” Lloyd said.

“He has always been a hard worker and an individual who always wants to improve himself. At the end of the day hard work pays off and that is what we are now seeing with Chanderpaul.

Lloyd, who to date is considered the most the most successful West Indian captain, said that for any young aspiring cricketer, he/she should follow in the footsteps of Chanderpaul.

Lloyd, who represented the West Indies in 110 Test matches, is of the opinion that Chanderpaul’s omission from the ODI arena has made him more focused and energetic to play the longer format of the game.

Lloyd, who captained the West Indies to the first Cricket World Cup victory in 1975 – a feat he repeated under his leadership four years later in 1979, said that Chanderpaul does not have to prove anything to anybody in ODI cricket since he has done a “marvelous job” in that format.

Chanderpaul has played 286 ODI’s, his last been March 23, 2011 versus Pakistan in Dhaka. He has scored 8778 runs with an average of 41.60, including 11 hundreds and 59 fifties.

Chanderpaul has played most of his Test cricket in a declining West Indies team, where he is often left as the last man standing, which is testimony to his focus and application. His average of just over 50 places him among the best in the world at present.

10,000 Test match runs:

Sachin Tendulkar (India) 15,470
Ricky Ponting (Australia) 13,346
Rahul Dravid (India) 13,288
Jacques Kallis (South Africa) 12,379
Brian Lara (West Indies) 11,953
Allan Border (Australia) 11,174
Steve Waugh (Australia) 10,927
Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) 10,440
Sunil Gavaskar (India) 10,122
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies) 10,055

 
WestDem 2020-04-08 14:47:01 

He made it look thiaEasy…Go to the 25th minute!.

 
Norm 2020-04-08 14:55:08 

In reply to WestDem

Thanks, man. Great video.

 
jacksparrow 2020-04-08 15:00:32 

West Indian way in a time of West Indian Pride(28.50).Sadly those days were missing in the days of Shiv

 
Narper 2020-04-10 21:48:01 

Shiv 69 ball ton

 
Narper 2020-04-10 21:53:19 

Brian Lara & Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Perfect Pairings

 
Narper 2020-04-10 21:55:00 

Shiv last ball six against NZ


Has it gone ? Has it gone" Has it gone" Its goneeeeeee !!!! screams Bishop big grin

 
jacksparrow 2020-04-10 22:12:53 

Its amazing with all he has done, his durability and production that some still feel he was not head and shoulders above the rest. Ah I guess we will leave it to the test of time when only records will count.

 
Norm 2020-04-11 06:16:03 

Here is my own Shiv page, at guyana-cricket.com.

 
Seechy 2020-04-12 13:53:13 

In reply to Norm

The Great man.

 
googley 2020-04-14 15:50:01 

what happened to Shivisgreat.com?

 
Norm 2020-04-15 03:41:03 

In reply to googley

what happened to Shivisgreat.com?

Things aren't great there anymore, it seems. The domain name is still valid, but the web host is gone.