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West Indies veteran batsman Shivnarayan Chandrapaul, who was known for his unique batting stance. Chandrapaul of Indian origin has himself accepted that he was forced to retire in 2016 …Read more
Shreyas Iyer reminds the story of retirement of West Indies batsman Shivnarayan Chandrapaul A similar case is of veteran Batsman Shivnarayan Chandrapaul, who was known for his unique batting stance. Chandrapaul of Indian origin himself has accepted that he was forced to retire in 2016. That is, a player whose talent is not liked by anyone, then such a situation was made for him so that he would say goodbye to the game. Now the fear is that Iyer may not take a similar step.
The treatment that took place with Shivnarayan Chandrapaul at that time was hardly done with any batsman and that is why Iyer was behaved with stepmother, his story was remembered. West Indies’s biggest batsman Brian Lara scored 11,953 runs in his Test career. At the same time, Shivnarayan Chandrapaul had scored 11,867 runs in Test career in 2015 by the conclusion of the Test series against England. Chandrapall was just 86 runs away from leaving Lara behind, but then he was dropped from the Test squad after the England series. After the retirement of Chandrapaul, Brian Lara said that Chandrapaul should have got a retirement match. But in those days, rumors had flown that the board did not want to take the risk that Chandrapaul got a retirement match and go ahead of Lara in terms of runs.
The West Indies Cricket Board had advised Chandrapaul to take retirement by asking to give the youth a chance. When Shivnarayan Chandrapal himself talked about this subject, it was found that he was asked to retire by luring him to play in the Masters League. He received NOC for the Masters League, but Chandrapaul also revealed that the board had threatened to withdraw the NOC for not retirement from international career. The pain of Shivnarayan Chandrapaul did not end here, because he had no other way left to continue the cricket career. Since the West Indies Cricket Board was not giving him a chance to return to the team, he had no option but to accept NOC for the Masters League.
Now after years, Shreyas Iyer has started feeling afraid of the incident because this batsman was kept out of the team twice in a row because he is not liked and now an atmosphere is being created so that Iyer is under constant pressure. The fear is that the situation should not become such that Iyer was seen playing franchise leagues and playing franchise leagues.
