April 12th 2006 Compliments of the Nation News

WEST INDIES CRICKET has been hit with another resignation.

	DEJECTED. West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul (left) and Brian Lara, who was bowled for a first-ball duck in the second innings, pondering on another defeat after the match. Embattled Shivnarine Chanderpaul announced he was quitting as West Indies team captain with immediate effect. < Read more >
	January 18th 2006 Compliments of the Nation News VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: Embattled captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been recommended to continue to lead the West Indies when they play New Zealand next month.
Tuesday July 26 20005 by TONY COZIER in Kandy West Indies skipper Shivnarine Chanderpaul caught by Mahela Jayawardene for 24 yesterday.

THE TENACITY that kept the overwhelmingly outclassed West Indies competitive for much of the series was finally and emphatically broken by two Kandy men over the last two days as the second Test, and the series, came to their predictable end.

In a defiant, unbeaten 157 that started on his old Trinity College ground on Saturday afternoon and carried through until yesterday morning, the left-handed Kumar Sangakkara converted the virtually deadlocked first innings totals into a certain winning position for Sri Lanka.

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Tuesday July 26 2005 by TONY COZIER in Kandy

Monday 25, April-2005 by PHILIP SPOONER

André Nel showing his delight as he traps West Indies skipper Shivnarine Chanderpaul leg-before.

There was an historic burial at Kensington Oval yesterday as fast bowler André Nel ripped the heart and soul out of the home side.

Brian Lara (right) and his new skipper Chanderpaul talk during yesterday’s practice session.

The prince was back at his old stomping ground yesterday.

But when Brian Charles Lara stepped onto the Queen’s Park Oval ground just outside Trinidad’s capital, it was as just another West Indies player, if that is at all possible.

The 34-year-old wonder batsman was in good spirits, and had a number of conversations with coaches and players, including new Windies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul, as the team prepared for the second Digicel Test against South Africa which starts tomorrow.

Friday 01, April-2005

It was a day to remember for the new-look West Indies cricket team. Wavell Wayne Hinds (right), spearheaded a fightback from the home team with an authoritative unbeaten 188 that crippled the South African bowling attack.
When he reached his hundred, Hinds, 28, was deservedly congratulated by the new man at the helm, Shiv Chanderpaul, who finished a rewarding day for the West Indies with a century of his own on his home ground at Bourda, Guyana. < Read more >

Chanderpaul raises his hands in triumph after reaching three figures at Lord’s on Saturday 25th July 2004.

The man they call “the little Guyanese” came up big yesterday.
Chivnarine Chanderpaul battled England tooth and nail at their historic and imposing home court advantage called Lord’s, and when the dust settled, West Indies had fought their way back into the first Power Test, trailing by only 152 going into today’s fourth day.

Chanderpaul’s knock of 128 not out, his 11th Test ton, if not pretty to watch, was brilliant and equally important to a West Indies team that has been dominated by England the last few months.

He faced 270 balls, and though not producing the kind of fireworks or stylish strokes usually associated with a century so important to a team badly in need of some good luck, those runs saved West Indies from a humiliating loss.

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Tuesday 25, January-2005 by TONY COZIER in Australia

Residents of a flooded house yesterday using a makeshift bridge to avoid the surging water in east coast Demerara in Guyana.


West Indies cricket vice-captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul has become a victim of the massive flooding that has rocked his homeland Guyana.

The left-handed batsman, who is in Australia with the side for the VB Series, said yesterday that his house (on the East Coast) was four feet under water and that he had lost most of his possessions.

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