Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine-Chanderpaul-batting-003Shivnarine Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974) is a 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 has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals. Chanderpaul is currently ranked number four test batsman in the world in the ICC official rankings.

A West Indian cricketer of Indian origin, the left-handed Chanderpaul is known for his doggedness and ability to stick on the wicket for long hours. He is known in the cricketing world for his unorthodox front-on batting stance, although he shifts his body into a more conventional position when he plays the ball, thus making him a prolific scorer on both sides of the wicket. Chanderpaul’s first notable impact on Test cricket was as being the last batting partner of Brian Lara when Lara broke Gary Sobers’ record of 365 not out in the fifth and final Test against England in 1993–94. Lara went on to make 375 before he was caught off Andrew Caddick’s bowling, sharing a 219-run stand with Chanderpaul, who was left not out on 75.
Chanderpaul made his first Test century in his 19th Test match – after having scored 15 half-centuries in the preceding 18 matches.

Shivnarine-Chanderpaul-batting002Chanderpaul’s best first class score is 303* versus Jamaica for Guyana, and, despite his reputation as a dogged batsman, he has also made the fourth fastest century in Test cricket, scoring three figures in just 69 balls at the Bourda, Guyana, also in the 2002–03 series against Australia. He was named captain of West Indies in the first Test versus South Africa in March 2005 in Guyana. He emulated Graham Dowling to become only the second player to make a double century on debut as a Test captain, scoring an unbeaten 200 and making a sporting declaration in the first Test. Chanderpaul remains one of the most recognisable faces in all of the West Indies, particularly his native Guyana, and he has come a long way from his first fifty in his first Test versus England in 1993–94 at Bourda to his current status as a former captain.

Chanderpaul holds a number of batting records

  • Shivnarine-ChanderpaulChanderpaul is one of only six players to have gone 1,000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this four times, and is the only player to have done so more than once.
  • He is also the only batsman in the history of Test cricket to have faced 1,000 consecutive balls without getting out.
  • He is the one of only four batsmen to have averaged more than 100 in two different calendar years (*qualification 400 runs) and the only one other than Sir Donald Bradman to do so in consecutive years.
  • Chanderpaul has scored the fourth fastest Test Hundred off 69 balls in the history of the game against Australia at Georgetown, Guyana.
  • He is currently the highest run scorer for the West Indies, with over 10,000 test runs, having overtaken Viv Richards on 17 May 2009, and Brian Lara on 17 May 2012.
  • He is one of only three players to score half-centuries in seven consecutive Test innings.
  • He is the second West Indies batsman after Brian Lara (11,953 runs) to score 10,000 or more runs in test cricket.
  • He is the most capped Test player of West Indian Cricket history as he has now stood in 140 Test Matches.

Luminaries – Famous cricketers visiting SICC

Visiting International Cricketers in Sarasota

We are grateful to all the present and past players for helping to promote cricket on the Gulf Coast of Florida and to the MCC for their continuing support.

Besides having Richie Benaud as Patron, and Shivnarine Chanderpaul as an Honorary Member, we have been fortunate to have played host to or played against The Lords Taverners and a number of international cricketers. Some have visited several times.

Visiting International Cricketers in Sarasota

Richard Benaud, Patron of SICC

Richard “Richie” Benaud OBE born 6 October 1930, is a former Australian cricketer who, since his retirement from international cricket in 1964, has become a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Richard-Benaud-test-cricketBenaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending thoughtful leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s. In 1958 he became Australia’s Test captain until his retirement in 1964.

Gideon Haigh described him as “… perhaps the most influential cricketer and cricket personality since the Second World War.” Harold de Andrado wrote: “Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.”
He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1961 for services to cricket.

In 2007, he was inducted in the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame at the Allan Border Medal award evening and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Richard-BenaudEarly in his career, he hit 100 runs against the West Indies in 78 minutes, the third fastest Test century of all time (in terms of minutes at the crease, not balls faced) and the second fastest by an Australian.[28]
Benaud was in charge for the inaugural 1960-61 Frank Worrell Trophy against the West Indies, a series that included the famous Tied Test.
Benaud’s highest Test score of 122 was made against South Africa, Johannesburg, 1957–1958
His best Test bowling effort of 7 for 72 was against India, Madras, 1956–1957
Richard-Benaud-in-suitHe captained Australia in 28 Tests: 12 wins, 12 draws, 4 losses
In 1963 he became the first player to complete the Test double of 200 wickets and 2,000 runs. He is one of only 10 Australian cricketers to have scored more than 10,000 runs and taken over 500 wickets in first-class cricket.
He ended his Test career in Sydney with statistics of 248 wickets (the Test record at that time) at 27.03 and 2,201 runs at 24.45.

Richie Benaud is also a successful author and a leading advocate for The Spirit of Cricket, the preface to The Laws of Cricket that seeks to reinforce the game’s tradition of fair play and sportsmanship.

Richard-Benaud-commentatorHis publications include:

  • Richie Benaud’s Way of Cricket (1961)
  • Tale of Two Tests (1962)
  • Spin Me a Spinner (Paperback, 1963)
  • The New Champions (1965)
  • Willow Patterns (1969)
  • The Young Cricketer (1971)
  • Test Cricket (1974)
  • Lords Taverners Fifty Greatest 1945-1983: Post War Cricketers (with T Bailey & MC Cowdrey, 1983)
  • The Ashes 1982-83 (1983)
  • Benaud on Reflection (1984)
  • The Appeal of Cricket (1995)
  • Fields of Glory: A Celebration of Cricket in Australia (with V Jenkins, paperback 1995)
  • Border & Company (1997)
  • The Wacker (with A J Barker, 1998)
  • Anything but an autobiography (1998)
  • Tom Smith’s New Cricket Umpiring & Scoring (with T Smith, 2001)
  • Classic After Dinner Sports Talks (with Jonathon Price, Pam Ayres & Dick Francis, 2004)
  • My Spin on Cricket (2005)
  • Ashes in Focus (with P Eager, 2005)
  • Warne (with Shane Warne, 2006)
  • Wisden Anthology (with S Moss, 2007)