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Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s bat always a precision tool |
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May 21, 2009 
| | Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Reuters) |
Mike Atherton, Chief Cricket Correspondent
Scarcely commented upon, it was. No doubt throwing garlands around a West Indies player was felt to be inappropriate during another supine performance from the touring team, but when Shivnarine Chanderpaul flicked Graham Onions for four in the final over of the fourth day, he went past Vivian Richards as the second-highest run-scorer in Tests for West Indies. It was something he achieved, remarkably, in exactly the same number of matches as Richards. Only Brian Lara awaits now, although Shiv needs a pair of binoculars to sight him, so far ahead is Lara with 11,912 runs.
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Saturday, May 16th 2009 | Tony Cozier CHESTER-LE-STREET Veteran set to move into second behind Lara AS long as the rain and the gloom that obliterated the entire second day of the second Test here yesterday relents, an improbable statistical record is likely to be established before the weekend is out. It is one that confirms, yet again, the contrasts and the variety that make cricket such a great and fascinating game. When he finally gets to bat on a pitch he knows well from his two seasons with English county, Durham, Shivnarine Chanderpaul needs 35 runs to pass Sir Viv Richards' 8,540 and become second only to Brian Lara, with his distant 11,912, as the West Indies' highest scorer in Tests.
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