mikesiva wrote:Here's yet another good article about Shiv....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 627594.ece
He wasn't always the patient run-maker he is now....
“I was too anxious,” he recalls now. “I was trying a little too hard. I wanted to get to 100 but never realised you needed to take your time to get there. It was not going to happen all in one go. I needed to be prepared to bat longer and not rush everything. I had to work for my runs.” This was a problem that took years to correct and one of the ways Chanderpaul did it was to approach net sessions as though they were Test matches. “I go to the nets and play it like it is a game situation, where you go out and try to survive. You play shots when you can but the aim is to not get out. Every session is like a Test match and I bat the same as I would in a Test. I think it helps when you play a game.”
mikesiva wrote:Here's another interesting article about Shiv....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... es-cricket
"He is one of only four batsmen to have gone 1,000 minutes in Test matches without conceding his wicket, but is the only person to have done so more than once. Chanderpaul has managed it four times. No other player in Test history has faced 1,000 consecutive deliveries without being dismissed. Only he and three others have averaged 100 in Tests in two different calendar years; he and Bradman are the only ones to do so in consecutive years. This is a phenomenon, a capacity to concentrate and play the ball impossibly late that can be attributed to his early years, when his father cut a rough, bumpy strip in a field for his son to practise on, which he did diligently against all-comers for hours."
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