Chanderpaul up to 6th on scorers’ list
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Veteran West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was hailed “a legend” yesterday after overtaking Australian Allan Border as the sixth highest all-time run scorer in tests.
His 122 not out in the third test against New Zealand in the West Indies’ first-innings total of 367 all out was also his 29th century and his 17th unbeaten, putting him one ahead of Indian great Sachin Tendulkar as the batsman with the most unbeaten test hundreds.
New Zealand finished the second day at 156-3.
Chanderpaul now has 11,199 runs from his 153 tests.
Border scored 11,174 runs from 156 tests before he retired in March 1994, the same month the 39-year-old Chanderpaul made his debut.
As the West Indies and New Zealand players saluted Chanderpaul — Denesh Ramdin described him as “a legend” and Kane Williamson said “he’s class you can learn a lot from” — Chanderpaul preferred to acknowledge Border.
“AB is a great man and scored a lot of runs against us in the past and we have a lot of fast bowlers. I’m happy to get up there,” he said.
The fifth highest scorer in tests is Chanderpaul’s West Indies compatriot Brian Lara who amassed 11,953, while the list is headed by the recently retired Tendulkar with a colossal 15,921 from 200 matches.
The other players in front of Chanderpaul are Australia’s Ricky Ponting (13,378), India’s Rahul Dravid (13,288), and South African Jacques Kallis (13,140).
However, Chanderpaul was non-committal when asked if he was determined to bridge the 754-run gap and overtake Lara. “I’m just trying to take each game as it comes along and trying to do as well as I can,” he said.
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