Comments on: A tribute to Shivnarine Chanderpaul

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:14:34 +0000

Shiv is the reason I bothered buying tickets to Day 4 of the WI Test at Lords. With any luck I will be watching England bowl all day whilst he leads a brilliant but ultimately hopeless rearguard action, before being the 10th wicket to fall at 6pm.

By: livescore

livescore — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:51:39 +0000

He was my favorite player and no doubt that in West Indian cricket after Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul was one of the greatest cricket in their history.

By: bradders

bradders — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:03:02 +0000

i love him. simple.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:01:21 +0000

Not wanting to ego-rub too much, but I read that tribute before I was linked to it here. My principal thought was, ‘This is really rather quite good’.

Shiv’s career in test cricket to date almost exactly overlaps mine as a spectator and, while appreciating the extent to which this is misguided, he will be my benchmark for batting until the day I die.

By: Uday

Uday — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:11:36 +0000

He really should get a pair of pads and a helmet which fit him. Perhaps they don’t make his size in the carribean.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:48:00 +0000

In reply to Bert.

Oooh, close DC. In fact, the answer to the unasked question in my comment was “1936, in Lahore, with an elephant.” And yes, the elephant did die as a result.

It is a good list though, as you rightly say. It contains a mix of good players in crap teams, and genuinely great players whove scored so many runs that they are simply going to be on any list where most runs is a criterion. Most runs scored in overcast conditions – Tendulkar. Most runs scored before tiffin – Tendulkar. Most runs scored while suffering from piles – Dravid.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:35:34 +0000

On another note Can somebody express what this arm straightening and bent arm mean…in lay man terms.Think King cricket is best suited for this !!!
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By: D Charlton

D Charlton — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:55:44 +0000

In reply to Bert.

In answer to you non-question Bert: Lara – who has scored more runs in defeat than Chanderpaul.

Good table that one – most runs in defeats: Tendulkar third and Alec Stewart fourth. Stewart embodies England’s 1990s misery. I do miss Ceefax.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:17:53 +0000

In reply to Bert. That genuinely gets quite close to the heart of why we feel so strongly about him.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:10:43 +0000

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the second highest run scorer in test defeats ever. He has more runs in test defeats than either Frank Worrell or Clyde Walcott scored in their entire test careers. At its best, sport is a mirror of life, and who else could have possibly done more to demonstrate the utter futility of existence than Chanderpaul.