Shivnarine Chanderpaul
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"Shivnarine Chanderpaul" is a Guyanese cricketer and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean to play 100 Tests for the West Indies, and captained them in 14 Test cricket/Tests and 16 One Day Internationals. A left-handed batsman, Chanderpaul is well known for his unorthodox batting stance, which has been described as crab-like. He has scored almost 20,000 runs in international cricket, and in 2008 he was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year/Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, and as the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy/Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council.

He made his international debut at the age of 19, but did not score a century in international cricket for three years, prompting some criticism. Early in his career, he was plagued by injuries, and was even dubbed a hypochondriac until he had a piece of floating bone removed from his foot in 2000. Since then he has enjoyed consistent form, scoring over 11,000 runs in Test cricket.

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Normally the wicket has a little bit in the morning so we'll have a go at them first. We have some good pace so we want to let them loose.

I think after the Ashes series Australia realized they were starting to relax a bit and they needed to pick their game up a little bit more so they were pretty tough this series.

Our young guys have learnt a lot from this tour. I hope that we can take it on when we get home and improve our cricket.

There's always pressure there. It probably affected my game in Australia. Hopefully I can get over it now and do well on this tour.

We all know Australia have a strong team and have been playing very good cricket over the years.

He's struggling a little bit so we have to help him also.

We lost 3-0 but there are plenty of positives we can take out of this... once we get it right things will happen for us.

Everybody came into this game full of confidence, everybody expected us to do well and everybody's disappointed with our performance. On a good batting wicket with our batting lineup, we should have got some more runs on the board.

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up.