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Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
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Chanderpaul playing for West Indies in 2006
Personal information
Born (1974-08-16) 16 August 1974 (age 42)
Unity Village, Guyana
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right-arm leg break
Role Middle-order batsman
Relations Tagenarine Chanderpaul (son)
Lawrence Prittipaul (cousin)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 204) 17 March 1994 v England
Last Test 1 May 2015 v England
ODI debut (cap 66) 17 October 1994 v India
Last ODI 23 March 2011 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no. 6
Domestic team information
Years Team
1991–present Guyana
2007–2009 Durham
2008 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2010; 2017-present Lancashire
2011–2012 Warwickshire
2012–2013 Khulna Royal Bengal
2013–2014 Derbyshire
2015 Guyana Amazon Warriors
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 164 268 355 414
Runs scored 11,867 8,778 25,919 13,230
Batting average 51.37 41.60 54.68 42.26
100s/50s 30/66 11/59 73/135 13/97
Top score 203* 150 303* 150
Balls bowled 1,740 740 4,812 1,681
Wickets 9 14 60 56
Bowling average 98.11 45.42 42.20 24.78
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/2 3/18 4/48 4/22
Catches/stumpings 66/– 73/– 187/– 114/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 March 2017

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Hindi: शिवनारायण चंद्रपाल; born 16 August 1974) is a Guyanese cricketer and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean to play 100 Tests for the West Indies, and captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals. A left-handed batsman, Chanderpaul is well known for his unorthodox batting stance, which has been described as crab-like. He has scored 20,000 runs in international cricket, and in 2008 he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and as the Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council.

He made his international debut at the age of 19, but did not score a century in international cricket for three years, prompting some criticism. Early in his career, he was plagued by injuries, and was even dubbed a hypochondriac until he had a piece of floating bone removed from his foot in 2000. Since then he has enjoyed consistent form, scoring over 11,000 runs in Test cricket and is currently the 7th highest run scorer of all time in the format. In January 2016 Chanderpaul announced his retirement from international cricket, at the age of 41.

On 27 January, he signed a Kolpak deal with Lancashire.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul was born in Unity Village, Guyana on 16 August 1974. His father, Kamraj Chanderpaul, helped to nurture his cricketing ability as a youngster.His ancestors were of Bhojpuri origin from India and came to West Indies as workers. By the age of eight, Chanderpaul was playing for his village's cricket team, and was frequently bat for hours, being bowled at by various members of his family. His father initially took him to the Everest club in Georgetown, but there was not a place for him at the club, and so he instead joined the Demerara Cricket Club. He appeared for the club's under-16 side while only ten. He was later given an opportunity at the Georgetown Cricket Club.


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