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The possessor of the crabbiest technique in world cricket, Shivnarine Chanderpaul proves there is life beyond the coaching handbook. He never seems to play in the V, or off the front foot, but uses soft hands, canny deflections, and a whiplash pull-shot to maintain a Test average close to 40. In cricket terms, Chanderpaul has had two main problems: (1) his low conversion rate of around one hundred to every ten fifties, and (2) his physical frailty, widely presumed to be hypochondria. That myth was exploded when a large piece of floating bone was removed from his foot late in 2000, and suitably liberated, he set about rectifying his hundreds problem, scoring three in four Tests against India in 2001-02. Once managed to shoot a policeman in the hand in his native Guyana, mistaking him for a mugger. Simon Briggs

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