Shivnarine Chanderpaul is a Guyanese cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team, born on 16 August 1974 and considered one of the greatest batsmen of his era. He is the 10th highest run scorer of all time in international cricket and the 9th highest in Test cricket, scoring 20,000 runs in international cricket, and he is well known for an unorthodox, crab-like batting stance. He captained West Indies in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals, was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, and in 2008 was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year and won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy as ICC Cricketer of the Year. He retired from international cricket in 2016 at the age of 41, was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in November 2022, and coaches the United States women's and under-19 women's teams.
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