The numbers - Let us get the numbers out of the way first. Chanderpaul has scored 10,830 runs from 148 Tests at 51.81 with 28 hundreds. He is currently eighth on the runs list. Jacques Kallis is the only active one among the seven men above him. - With 90 fifties he ranks sixth on the list. Once again, Kallis is the only active batsman above him. - Chanderpaul is one of only three batsmen to have scored seven consecutive Test fifties — the other two being Everton Weekes and Andy Flower. - Chanderpaul holds the record of facing most balls without being dismissed. He faced 1,051 balls against India in 2002 over four innings (though he scored only 362 runs). - In the above sequence Chanderpaul had also batted for 1,513 minutes (which is in excess of 25 hours). This is also a world record, well clear of Kallis’s 1,246. - Chanderpaul had scored 558 runs at 111.60 in 2007 and 909 at 101.00 in 2008. Other than Don Bradman he is the only other batsman to have scored over 500 runs at a 100-plus average in consecutive years (Geoff Boycott and Wally Hammond are the only other one to have done it twice, but not in consecutive years). - Chanderpaul has scored 2,440 runs at 65.94 batting at number six: he easily averages the most for anyone with over 2,000 runs at that position – way clear of Garry Sobers’ 53.34. - Chanderpaul had scored the fourth-fastest Test hundred of all time — in only 69 balls — against Australia at Bourda in 2002-03. - Chanderpaul has now played in most Tests while being on the losing side — 68 — which probably proves how valiant his efforts have been. - One of the quirkier records that Chanderpaul holds is that he has taken the most Test wickets — nine — without ever taking two wickets in the same innings.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 04:04:19 +0000
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