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Shivnarine Chanderpaul: First batsman to witness 500 dismissals from the other end in Test cricket

Chanderpaul completed feat of witnessing 500 times his teammates dismissed from the other end.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul © Getty Images
Shivnarine Chanderpaul made his Test debut way back in 1994 © Getty Images

In the last match of the two-Test series against Bangladesh, Shivnarine Chanderpaul completed a unique feat of witnessing 500 times his teammates dismissed from the other end in Test cricket. Bharath Seervi does statistical analysis on watching most dismissals from other end and partnership aggregates in Test cricket.

West Indies’ batting pillar, Chanderpaul, keeps creating and emulating some records especially in his later period of career. He has now witnessed 500 and more dismissals of his teammates from other end of the pitch. In the first innings of the second Test at Gros Islet, Jermaine Blackwood’s dismissal off Al-Amin Hossain was the 500th time Chanderpaul was batting at the other end when a wicket fell. In all, at the end of the series, he has witnessed (or whatever can be the appropriate term) 506 dismissals from the other end.

Chanderpaul made his Test debut in 1994. He was always under the shadow of Brian Lara. But once Lara retired, Chanderpaul has become the backbone of the declining West Indies team. In the recent years, he has showed enormous patience and strong desire to carry on as long as possible in Tests. The wickets keep falling at the other end, but he stands firm. In the 18th year of his career, Chanderpaul has witnessed 500 or more times the batsman at the other end getting out, and he is the first batsman to record this unique feat.

The batsman second to Chanderpaul is Rahul Dravid who witnessed 453 dismissals as a batsman in his Test career in 286 innings. Chanderpaul overcame Dravid’s mark in the final Test series of Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar on November 8, 2013 at Kolkata. No other batsman has seen 400 or more dismissals — Allan Border (364) and Sachin Tendulkar (350) are the others in the club of watching 350 or more dismissals. The table below lists the complete list.

Batsmen watching 200 or more dismissals from other end in Test cricket

Dismissals Batsman Team Innings Dism/Inn
506* S Chanderpaul West Indies 269 1.88
453 R Dravid India 286 1.58
364 AR Border Australia 265 1.37
350 SR Tendulkar India 329 1.06
348 SR Waugh Australia 260 1.34
337 JH Kallis South Africa 280 1.2
323* KC Sangakkara Sri Lanka 221 1.46
303 SM Gavaskar India 214 1.42
278 AJ Stewart England 235 1.18
276 BC Lara West Indies 232 1.19
270 DL Haynes West Indies 202 1.34
265 VVS Laxman India 225 1.17
257 MA Atherton England 212 1.21
253 G Boycott England 193 1.31
248 DPMD Jayawardene Sri Lanka 252 0.98
238 GA Gooch England 215 1.11
236 SP Fleming New Zealand 189 1.25
228 Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistan 200 1.14
227 RT Ponting Australia 287 0.79
227* AN Cook England 194 1.17
221 MA Taylor Australia 186 1.18
218 DI Gower England 204 1.07
215 DB Vengsarkar India 185 1.16
208 JavedMiandad Pakistan 189 1.1
207 IR Bell England 181 1.14
204 MC Cowdrey England 188 1.08

The current players in the list along with Chanderpaul are Kumar Sangakkara (323) and Alastair Cook (227).Chanderpaul also has the highest dismissals per innings ratio of 1.88 which is comfortably higher than second best 1.58 of Dravid. Ricky Ponting has the lowest ratio among the above 21 players (0.79). In fact, Chanderpaul’s ratio is higher than all the batsmen who batted 150 or more innings in Test cricket.

Most number of partnerships in Test career (400 or more):

Chanderpaul, in the same Test match, also broke the record of involving in most number of partnerships in a Test career. He overcame Dravid who had involved in 738 partnerships in his Test career. On the first day of Test match, when he walked on to bat when the third wicket fell, it was Chanderpaul’s 739th partnership in Test cricket. He ended the first Test with 738 partnerships to his name. As of now, he has involved in 747 partnerships in his test career. The table below lists the players.

Partnerships Batsman Team Innings P’ship/Inn
747* S Chanderpaul West Indies 269 2.78
738 R Dravid India 286 2.58
675 SR Tendulkar India 329 2.05
617 AR Border Australia 265 2.33
613 JH Kallis South Africa 280 2.19
590 SR Waugh Australia 260 2.27
540* KC Sangakkara Sri Lanka 221 2.44
519 SM Gavaskar India 214 2.43
513 RT Ponting Australia 287 1.79
508 BC Lara West Indies 232 2.19
504 AJ Stewart England 235 2.14
500 DPMD Jayawardene Sri Lanka 252 1.98
482 VVS Laxman India 255 1.89
473 DL Haynes West Indies 202 2.34
471 MA Atherton England 212 2.22
453 GA Gooch England 215 2.11
450 G Boycott England 193 2.33
424 Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistan 200 2.12
424 SP Fleming New Zealand 189 2.24
420* AN Cook England 194 2.16
418 DI Gower England 204 2.05
407 MA Taylor Australia 186 2.18
401 DB Vengsarkar India 185 2.16

 

Chanderpaul has so far partnered with 82 different players – it is the highest for any player.In One-Day Internationals (ODIs), most partnerships is by Tendulkar (934) and most number of dismissals watched by any player is also Tendulkar (481).

(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SeerviBharath and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SeerviCricket)

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