One day I will write a really positive article on Shivnarine Chanderpaul, today is not that day.
Sometimes in life you need to do things for the Greater Good, the Greater Good.
It’s like if you have a girl friend, and you think all her friends are pretentious w@nkers, and she asks you to go to a party at one of their houses. By not going to said party, you may anger your girlfriend, and sex may be withheld from you.
So even though you don’t want to spend a minute with these people, you understand that a few hours with them will give between 1 and 2 minutes of pure dirty lust filled joy with her.
Shivnarine needs to understand this principle.
We know that he doesn’t want to captain the Windies, he quit that job to concentrate on his batting.
This has worked out quite nicely for him.
But with Gayle injured, Sarwan not available and Frank Worrell dead, surely Shiv would have said, look, I don’t want to do this, but I understand that for one game, and one game only, I am the man who should lead my country, you know for the Greater Good, the Greater Good.
I would have thought, however incorrectly, that this is a sure thing to happen.
Apparently not.
Instead Dwayne Bravo is going to be captain, sure he is vice captain, but that was chosen to give his game focus, and surely not because he was giving invaluable tips to Gayle.
In the field of the last 2 tests I have hardly seen Gayle chat to Bravo.
I think Bravo is a gun player, who probably needs stick and carrot type handling, but being that he is 24 and has played in one test victory and Chanderpaul is almost as old as Bryce McGain and has played in over 100 tests, for this occasion perhaps Shiv might have been the better option.
I hope I’m wrong, cause if I’m wrong, South Africa might lose the series, and I will dance for 12 minutes straight if that happens.
But I won’t be getting my dancing shoes out just yet, with Gayle out and Edwards doubtful, I can’t see the Windies winning.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"
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