Last Updated on 16/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Every young cricketer wants to copy the playing style of legendary players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Jaspreet Bumrah. But there were some cricketers whose bowling or batting style was absolutely unique. Some used to play in a very strange style. The name of former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul is also included in this list.
Shivnarayan Chandrapaul is celebrating his 50th birthday today (16 August). Chandrapaul’s batting stance is considered to be quite peculiar. He used to stand in the crease as if the bowler was going to bowl to him from the square leg side. Despite this batting technique, Chandrapaul scored a lot of runs in international cricket. Chandrapaul was successful in scoring more than 10 thousand runs in Test cricket. He performed brilliantly with the bat in ODIs.
If we look at it, left-handed batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul had scored only 2 centuries in the first 53 Test matches, but after that his performance improved tremendously. With the India tour in 2006, Chanderpaul’s career graph went up a lot. In the next three years, Chanderpaul scored runs in a total of 23 Test matches at an excellent average of 73.09. During this period, he scored seven centuries and 14 half-centuries.
In 2005, Chanderpaul was made the captain of West Indies. He celebrated getting the captaincy by scoring a double century at his home ground in Guyana. However, he resigned the very next year (2006) so that he could focus on batting. After this, Chanderpaul became a run machine. In 2012, in his 140th Test against Australia, Chanderpaul touched the figure of ten thousand runs.
Whenever the team was in trouble, Chanderpaul would stand at the crease and score centuries at will. But after three years, his performance declined. Chanderpaul was dropped from the team after scoring just one half-century in ten innings. Then in December 2015, Chanderpaul did not even find a place in the central contract list, after which this veteran announced his retirement from international cricket in January 2016.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul started his Test career in 1994 against England in Guyana. He scored a century then and West Indies won that match by an innings and 44 runs. He played his last Test match also against England in May 2015 in Barbados. Chanderpaul played 164 Tests, 268 ODIs and 22 T20 Internationals in his 22-year long cricket career.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored 11867 runs in Test cricket at an average of 51.37. His highest score in Tests was 203 not out. Chanderpaul scored a total of 30 centuries and 66 half-centuries in his Test career. Chanderpaul is second in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket for West Indies. Brian Lara is at the top in this case, who scored just 86 runs more than Chanderpaul.
In ODIs, Chanderpaul scored 8778 runs at an average of 41.60 which included 11 centuries and 59 half-centuries. He played his last ODI match in the 2011 World Cup against Pakistan in Dhaka. Apart from this, Chanderpaul has 343 runs in his name in T20 Internationals at an average of 20.17.
Let us tell you that Shivnarayan Chandrapaul’s son Tegnarayan Chandrapaul also plays international cricket for West Indies. 28-year-old Tegnarayan bats with left hand like his father. Tegnarayan has played 10 Test matches so far, in which he has scored 560 runs at an average of 32.94. Tegnarayan has scored one century and one half-century in Tests.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)