Shivnarine Chanderpaul: Unpacking His Cricket Achievements and Records

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is and always remain one of the greatest cricketers that the Caribbean Islands has every produced. Representing West Indies for over 20 years, the former skipper has been part of many ups and lows of his nation’s cricket. He at times had been a lone warrior for his team, especially after the retirement of greats like Brian Lara and Carl Hooper in the batting department.

Let’s take a look at his overall statistics and the records he still holds in international cricket — and yes, expect plenty of trivia along the way.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s Career at a Glance

Shivnarine Chanderpaul Career Stats

All-Formats Records and Achievements of Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Second most career runs by a West Indies batter and 11th most overall. Only Brian Lara (22358) has more runs than Chanderpaul for a West Indies player. Check the global top ten here.

He is among the 13 players overall to breach the 20k run landmark in international cricket.

His century tally of 41 is the third best for West Indies behind Lara’s 53 and Chris Gayle’s 42. (All-time leaders)

He has the most 50+ scores for a West Indies batter (166) and that makes him the 9th best overall.

Chanderpaul has played 454 matches for West Indies in international cricket, making him the 2nd most capped player for his country, only behind Gayle’s 483. Find out who is the most capped international cricketer overall here.

He has won the player of the series award 11 times which is the second most for WI (Overall List) behind Gayle (12).

Likewise, he has been awarded the player of the match 27 times in international cricket.

Test Match Performance Analysis

Shivnarine Chanderpaul Test Record by Match Results

Shivnarine Chanderpaul Test Batting Stats (Home/Away)

Key Statistical Insights from Results-based table and Home/Away Performance:

• Has scored the most number of Test runs in a losing cause (5370)
• Nine hundreds by Chanderpaul is the third most in a losing cause behind Lara (14) and Sachin Tendulkar (11)
• Seventh most runs away from home in Tests. One of the 14 batters to have scored 5000 or more Test runs away from home
• Sixth best average at home with a minimum criteria of 5000 Test runs
• Ninth most prolific run getter in Tests while playing at home

Test Records & Achievements of Shivnarine Chanderpaul

164 Test caps for West Indies, making him the most capped player for his team and the seventh most overall in Test history

Had a career spanning for 21 years and 47 days and this is the 13th longest Test career. Above him only Sachin Tendulkar (200) and James Anderson (188) have played more Tests

Top scored in an innings for West Indies 60 times, the fifth most in history

Top scored in a match for WI 37 times, the sixth most in history

Has the sixth fastest century in Test cricket coming off just 69 balls

Has won 7 player of the series awards in Tests and is the seventh most prolific in this front. Malcom Marshall and Curtly Ambrose have each won 6 POTS awards

One of the 11 batters to cross the 11000 run landmark in Tests

With 11867 runs, he is the ninth prolific run-getter in Tests and only behind Lara among West Indies batters

One among the 13 batters to have a Test career average of more than 50 while aggregating 10000 or more runs

15th most Test centuries in a career and second most for WI behind Lara (34)

One of the 6 batters to have scored seven successive fifty plus scores in Tests- A record till date

Has scored 1580 runs in the fourth innings of a Test match, the fifth most and 4356 in the second innings, the fourth most in history