Comments on: Shivnarine Chanderpaul – the last great West Indies cricketer

By: Micko

Micko — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:03:05 +0000

I tried turning on a few light switches. It went OK, but I don’t think my wife understood my explanation as to what I was doing.

By: Ged

Ged — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:18:08 +0000

I made a horlicks of my right elbow by over-stretching while playing tennis last week.

So I have celebrated the elbow element of Shiv’s retirement today by playing a set entirely left-handed against Daisy (with a surprising degree of success) and then having some painful treatment on my right elbow.

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:07:10 +0000

Shiv deserves a strongly written letter of apology from his previous teammates. A talent such as his deserved to be remembered as the foundation around which a legion of fans spoke in hushed tones of how brilliant their team was.

From his previous employer he deserves something better. Perhaps a sarcastically tall statue of him, hunched awkwardly over the crease. Of course for Shiv no statue could be tall enough to be termed “sarcastically tall” without the top of his head gently scraping the Insternational Space Station.

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:00:53 +0000

In reply to Bert. "We must imagine Chanderpaul happy."

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:26:50 +0000

Shivnarine Chanderpaul – proof of the utter futility of existence. There was no point to what he did, the West Indies won nothing. Indeed, his career covered the period when just as you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, it did. If Shiv hadn’t scored all those runs, literally nothing would have changed.

The Teleological Argument fails on this single point – if there is an ultimate purpose to the universe, where does Shivnarine Chanderpaul fit into it? He doesn’t, so there isn’t, and therefore there is no God.

By the way, I’ve just elbowed a small child out of the way. Nonexistent God bless you Shiv.

By: BailOut

BailOut — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:36:08 +0000

Is it even legal for Shiv to retire?

I thought there was A Law Against This Kind Of Thing.

Few cricketers have done more to earn their retirement.