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Jaguars’ PCL preparations …Shiv Chanderpaul (59), Bramble (47) take 2nd day honours
By Sean Devers
At 41 and with his better days in cricket behind him, Shiv Chanderpaul showed the value of 164 Tests and 345 First-Class matches experience as nobody scored as many runs as the ‘Tiger’ by the time day two of the third three-day simulation match ended yesterday at Bourda.
The reliable Chanderpaul, with 70 First-Class centuries, 30 of them at the
Robin Bacchus majestically covers drives for four before he was forced to retire hurt fending a bouncer from Paul Wintz.
Test level, demonstrated his tremendous temperament and why he was considered the glue that held the West Indies innings together by carefully facing 111 balls to reach his 50 with his fifth boundary.
The slimly built batting machine from Unity Village, celebrated his half-century with a six off Visual Singh’s part time off-spin after reaching his 50 the ball before to surpass the 55 made by Assad Fudadin on the opening day.
Chanderpaul, who finished on 59 before he was taken at long-on in Singh’s only over at 214-6, one run before Leon Johnson’s X1 declared.
Singh’s X1 reached 70 without loss by close of play with Tagenarine Chanderpaul (18) and West Indies under-19 selectee Tevin Imlach (26) being the not out batsmen after Robin Bacchus (20) was forced to retire hurt after being hit on his glove by a bouncer from Paul Wintz with his team on 29-0.
Resuming on 113-4, Chanderpaul found a perfect foil in the more attacking Anthony Bramble, who struck four fours in 47 and together added 100 runs after joining forces at 84-4 on Tuesday.
Bramble, who hit the ball with fierce power, pushed forward to 20-year-old former West Indies U19 left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie and was caught behind at 184-5.
West Indies U-19 player Kemo Paul joined Chanderpaul, who was content to hit the ball into gaps and rotated the strike. Paul swept Jacobs disdainfully for four in his unbeaten 12 before Chanderpaul (59) gifted his wicket to Singh to become the second Test batsman Singh, who has only bowled 24 balls in First-Class Cricket, has ever dismissed after he got Darren Bravo in the club game in Trinidad.
Jacobs finished with 3-42 for Singh’s X1 who began solidly with Bacchus dominating the stand with 19-year-old Tagenarine Chanderpaul, a former West Indies U-19 player who has played nine First-Class matches.
Bacchus got going with an exquisitely timed front foot push through cover for four off Wintz, who had Chanderpaul rocking his head back like a boxer evading a straight right as he tested the left-hander with a short one.
Chanderpaul then steered Wintz to the third-man boundary as both Wintz and Jevon Searles bent their backs on the two paced track and produced disconcerting bounce.
Bacchus gave himself room and slapped Searles for four before a majestic cover driven boundary off the Bajan pacer was arguably the shot of the day.
Chanderpaul played the ‘sheet anchor’ role as he buckled down for the long haul with several ‘leaves’ outside off-stump before Bacchus fended at a nasty lifting delivery that reared off just short off a good length and crashed into his gloves forcing him to retire on 20.
Imlach smashed Joshua Wade brutally past mid-off before sweetly driving former Guyana U-19 player Steven Sankar through cover when spin was introduced, while in a rare moment of aggression, Chanderpaul dumped left-arm spinner Raj Nannan for four over mid-on.
Singh’s X1 will resume today still 135 runs behind Johnson’s first innings total.
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