Chanderpaul Renews Contract with Lancashire for Another Year !
Shiv Chanderpaul at the 2017 American College Cricket National Championship, with Lloyd Jodah
Shiv Chanderpaul has been a Patron of American College Cricket since the beginning, and the National Championship is played for the Chanderpaul Trophy. Chanderpaul was at the 2017 National Championship to present the Trophy & interact with the college players – he was awesome & humble in this role !
Now, still performing well at age 43, he has signed a new contract with Lancashire to play another year with the club.He is cricket’s Brett Favre, Tom Brady is 40.
In last year’s County Championship the left-hander scored 819 runs at an average of over 50, with 3 centuries, as Lancashire finished 2nd in Division One, their best performance since they won in 2011.
“The Club is extremely ambitious and there is a group of hugely talented young cricketers in the squad. I’ve really enjoyed playing my part both on the field scoring as many runs as possible, but also as a mentor to some of our younger players,” he said. “Hopefully I can continue to pass on some of my knowledge and experience to them,”
Chanderpaul, who previously played with Durham, Warwickshire and Derbyshire, as well as enjoying an earlier spell with Lancashire in 2010, was practically forced into retirement from international cricket in 2016, when the West Indies Cricket Board dropped him ignomiously as it had done Alvin Kallicharran and Rohan Kanhai many years ago. Some things haven’t changed. Chanderpaul made 11,867 Test runs, the 7th highest of all-time, at an average of 51.67.
Chanderpaul was the first active Test player to actually get involved with the development of the game in another country, in this case the United States, when he gave his support to American College Cricket in Dec 2008.He was the 1st Inductee into the American College Cricket Hall of Fame, in Dec 2013.
