On 19th February, 1992, a surprisingly prescient editorial appeared in Stabroek News. It was not a comment in the sports column. It was the main opinion piece. It opened as follows:
“Let us be the first West Indian newspaper to editorialise on a young man who one day may make the whole region proud. It is the earliest of days – in fact, his first match for Guyana – and we don’t want to swell young Chanderpaul’s head, but in the two days he was on show at Bourda he showed a glimpse of the astonishing eye, technique, timing, and appetite for run which one associates with future cricket greatness…
Young Chanderpaul is no more than a boy – the
