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PCL four-day practice match …Chanderpaul hits painstaking unbeaten fifty on rain affected 2nd day
One could not help but to feel sorry for the proverbial two men and a dog that turned up at the Providence Stadium to see what was eventually an uneventful second day of the final PCL four-day practice match which
Shiv Chanderpaul, who looked a shadow of himself yesterday, survives an appeal off Ronsford Beaton.
was stopped at 16:15 hrs due to bad light.
The day was void of any excitement as Shiv Chanderpaul, who was still there at the end on a labourious unbeaten 53 from 134 balls and over three hours of batting on a placid track, added 70 for the fifth wicket from 213 balls with fellow left-hander Vishaul Singh, who fell for 34 from 119 balls with a single boundary.
The partnership was as slow as a turtle climbing mount Roraima and carried Leon Johnson’s X1 to 201-5 from 66.3 overs from their overnight 76-2, giving them a lead of 60. They are replying the 141 made by Robin Bacchus’ X1.
Johnson was trapped LBW for a duck in the second over of the day which began 35 minutes late due rain at 78-3 as Paul Wintz (2-22) struck in cloudy conditions.
Assad Fudadin carried his first day 26 to 47 after hitting eight fours and batting for 244 minutes and 91 balls before he edged Bajan pacer Jevon Searles to the Keeper to leave his team on 78-3 before rain stopped play at 10:55hrs at 87-3 when an early Lunch was taken.
Play resumed at 12:35hrs and Chanderpaul and Singh batted in an ultra cautious manner as the pair took the score to 152-4 by Tea, scoring just 65 runs in the two hours between Lunch and Tea against a steady but hardly threatening bowling attack which kept the batsmen in shackles all afternoon.
The 41-year-old Chanderpaul played the first of his 164 Tests against England at Bourda in 1994 as a 19-year-old to become the sixth youngest West Indian to play Test cricket but yesterday he looked a shadow of himself as his decline was evident.
Leg-spinner Steven Sankar, who bowled several short balls and a number of full tosses in an untidy spell, released the pressure on the batsmen.
Vishaul Singh works one into the on-side at Providence yesterday.
Chanderpaul, who has 71 First-class tons, 30 of them at Test level, clipped a full toss from Sankar just over the head of mid-on for four before stroking another full toss past the former Guyana youth spinner for another boundary.
The 26-year-old Singh, whose maiden First-Class hundred was made in Trinidad, struggled to get the ball off the square and he pushed and prodded to the spinners before he injudiciously hit part-time medium pacer Bacchus, who opted to bowl innocuous off-spin, to mid-on at 179-5.
Meanwhile, Chanderpaul, who intends to bat his way back into the West Indies team could not even dominate Bacchus as the game at one point looked more of a ‘fete match’ than a serious practice game for Guyana Jaguars’ defence of their PCL title.
Chanderpaul sliced Searles for four but looked scratchy and his innings lacked the quality of the past, suggesting that if he does not make a remarkable return to form this could be his last First-Class season for Guyana.
Bacchus, with Ronsford Beaton, Raun Johnson, Wintz and Searles in his armory, opted not to use his pacers to try and unsettle the aging Chanderpaul with a few short ones, but instead was content to allow the game to drift on.
Left-arm Raj Nannan seemed very unfortunate not to have a very confident appeal for LBW upheld with Chanderpaul on 47. The former Guyana and West Indies Captain then clipped Nannan behind square for his fifth four to bring up his 50 from 133 balls.
Refier (7) was the other not out batsman when bad light stopped play but many of the players lacked the type of intensity they showed in the earlier practice games and the Coaching staff would hope for an improved showing for the players today and a more positive approach from the batsmen. (Sean Devers)
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