Tagenarine Chanderpaul, son of West Indies legend Shivnarine, hit just one boundary in a marathon four-hour knock.
Son of West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Tagenarine scores 35 runs in 196 balls and 252 minutes
Opening for Guyana in their second West Indies Championship match of the season, against Windward Islands, Chanderpaul dug deep to ensure his side entered the second day with minimal damage after bowling out the opposition for 151. He remained unbeaten at 29 off 129 in close to three hours of the first day’s play, with Guyana at 130-2 at stumps.
He held onto one end after resumption, scoring just six more runs off the next 66 deliveries to be dismissed for 35 off 196. He was the fourth Guyana wicket to fall for 143 runs, just eight short of Windward Islands’ first-innings total, which they eventually overhauled and were 44 ahead at the time of writing.
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Earlier in the innings, opener Matthew Nandu hit a sixth first-class fifty, eventually scoring 54 off 65. No.3 Kevlon Anderson contributed 41 runs off 50 deliveries as well, even as Chanderpaul went on with his blockathon at the other end. For the Windward Islands, only three batters managed to score over 35 runs, with Nial Smith picking up a sixth career five-wicket haul.
Chanderpaul was notably approaching the record for the slowest fifty ever scored in the Caribbean by balls, held by Len Hutton, who scored a 239-ball half-century for England against the West Indies at Bridgetown in February 1954. Dilip Sardesai holds the record for the slowest fifty by time in the Caribbean, scoring a half-century in 302 minutes during the Bridgetown Test between India and the West Indies in March 1962. Chanderpaul’s innings lasted 252 minutes.
