Afro I have read through 8 pages on total bunkum from you. I detect that you have a one-track mind: get Shiv off the team!!!! He is old, he is no good, he had a bad series in SL - they had more rain than games .... Face reality: He has been selected for the two tests
I doubt you have any idea about the game of cricket and/or is history - West Indian cricket history and its recent collision with the WICB.
How dare you talk about Shiv opening his big mouth. Read Tony Cozier's recent article:
THE most implausible aspect of the latest in the age-old, never-ending, self-defeating conflicts between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and its most prominent players is that Shivnarine Chanderpaul is at the forefront.
In the 17 years since he shuffled to the wicket at Bourda as a frail 19-year-old in his debut Test, Chanderpaul has never been embroiled in anything to tarnish his name or that of West Indies cricket, never been cited by a match referee, never appeared before a disciplinary committee. So what would have prompted such a seemingly placid individual to erupt, like a sleeping volcano, into such furious, lengthy outbursts, in print and on the airwaves, with the aid of his legal advisers, against the WICB, its chief executive Ernest Hilaire, coach Otis Gibson and the selectors?
And what can, indeed must, be done in the few days left before the Test series against Pakistan starts on Thursday to calm the troubled waters? On all the evidence, there were a few obvious catalysts to the dispute.
The first was Gibson's sharp censure of the unnamed but obvious "senior players" after the World Cup and his hint that they could be left out of the current home matches against Pakistan (as Chanderpaul, Gayle and Sarwan were). This was followed by Hilaire's general criticism of the attitude of some unidentified players in a radio interview.
The interviewer asked leading questions and provided a tremendous avenue/opportunity to get it out in the open so Shiv being inarticulate - just said it like it is..... He did not hold back and he is entitled to his emotions....
He openly admitted that the matter is
HIS but he needed to liaise with WIPA so that he did not interfere with contractual issues and they put it in legalese. That was the one interview he did - everything else has mushroomed from that one but he cannot be held responsible for it. I actually think it has done a world of good for the team.
This now shows that the players cannot be taken for granted..... Jerome Taylor has had to go to IPL because no one approached him nor asked him to play in either the 5 ODIs or the 2 test matches..... His story is shocking too..... Nobody will speak for them so Shiv has opened up....
Shiv was also extremely supportive of Chris Gayle and Sarwan - I did not hear any one player speak out in support of SHIV..... Yes, the message boards, letters to editors in newspapers across the globe and private message like yours and mine are all out there but none could have touched the WICB as much as that one radio interview so kudos to the reporter who nabbed it.....
Give the man the respect he deserves... If you cannot find it within you to do so then simply shut YOUR big mouth and move on...........
Man up!!!!
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, but you can continue to distort my views if that makes you feel better, 
