There will never be another Chanderpaul

Tony Cozier

One sign among the abundance at the Wankedhe Stadium last week grieving over the passing of Sachin Tendulkar – for that is what it seemingly was to his millions of Indian disciples – bore a simple, unanimously held sentiment.

“There will never be another Sachin,” it read. For a variety of reasons, the phrase would be equally appropriate when Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the stripling from Guyana whose 150th Test in Mumbai was predictably eclipsed by the emotion over Tendulkar’s farewell 200th,