Shivnarine Chanderpaul Furious over Tactics; Being Told How to Bat After 15 Years

The bitter battle between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and the West Indies Cricket Board does not seem in immediate signs of a truce. Even as it was claimed that Chanderpaul could find himself back in the West Indies line up, the player himself has lashed out at the board and the running of the team, and blaming them for his scattered performances.

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The former West Indies captain has been in a battle with the WICB ever since he was not considered for the West Indies Pakistan ODI series. Chanderpaul was also vocal that the West Indies board wanted him to retire at the end of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and that his categorical refusal led to a lot of unrest amongst the sports' administrators.

Chanderpaul even asked the WICB CEO to explain the derogatory remarks made about the West Indies team and how it was functioning and the indirect attribute to the senior players acting like superstars. Claiming to be a workhorse all his life, Chanderpaul claimed that even after fifteen years of playing international cricket, he was being dictated terms to by the player management and micromanaged with messages sent to him while at the crease.

Chanderpaul claimed that the mishandling of the players and the match situation was not an attribute of past coaches he had worked with and that this new way of functioning was interfering in his contributions to the team. How fragile the relationship between the coach and the players was reflecting in the anguish with which Chanderpaul blasted the management for ruining the way he had played his game and served the West Indies banner.

It appears that there is no immediate solution to the problems between the West Indies players and the WICB. Over the past six months, this is the third major incident involving the senior cricketers after Ramnaresh Sarwan, the ongoing feud and difference with Chris Gayle and this latest battle with Chanderpaul. It is rather alarming that the problems between players and management have been a feature of their sport for so long that they have virtually annihilated the period when the West Indies were a feared bunch of outstanding cricketers. Instead to be reduced to bitter infighting and poverty of results is a sad plight indeed for the team.