Nice tribute to Shiv in the link---Paying A Poetic Tribute To West Indies Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Test cricket's most defeated player, super Shiv, is also one of its most indefatigable.
RushAmong the innumerable records set by the incomparable Lara was one he will not be particularly proud of – when he retired, he had lost more Test matches than any other player in history. He has since been knocked off bottom spot by another member of Breeze's "young generation", Shiv Chanderpaul.
Test cricket's most defeated cricketer is also one of its most indefatigable. Chanderpaul has won more caps than any other West Indian, and only two batsmen in history, Allan Border and Rahul Dravid, have scored more runs at a lower strike rate.
He(Super Shiv) succinctly summed up his method in a piece of advice he once gave to Marlon Samuels: "watch the ball, if it look fat, attack. If it look fine, block."
He has come a long way since he was playing on wickets made out of rolled cow dung and mud in his home village of Unity. Back then his father, a fisherman nicknamed cow-fly, was so keen his son should grow up a cricketer that according to Colin Croft, who grew up nearby, he "even enlisted the village dogs, cows and donkeys to bowl at him".
Chanderpaul does not belong on the top of the pedestal(Sobers, Richards and Lara reside there), but he certainly has a place in the pantheon. That century against Australia was his 25th, which puts him one ahead of Viv Richards, and leaves him behind only Lara and Gary Sobers on the West Indies' all-time list.