The Comeback
When Shivnarine Chanderpaul got hit in the back of his head by a Brett Lee bouncer in the Jamaica Test, he fell like a sack of potatoes. For about a couple of minutes he lay still, as a concerned Lee ran over, in the stands Chanderpaul's wife Amy cried, and Tony Cozier suggested on air that he might be unconscious. Then he slowly stirred, and the crowd came back to life as he put his arm-guard and gloves on and went back to batting.
When Shivnarine Chanderpaul got hit in the back of his head by a Brett Lee bouncer in the Jamaica Test, he fell like a sack of potatoes. For about a couple of minutes he lay still, as a concerned Lee ran over, in the stands Chanderpaul's wife Amy cried, and Tony Cozier suggested on air that he might be unconscious. Then he slowly stirred, and the crowd came back to life as he put his arm-guard and gloves on and went back to batting.
The next over he faced, Lee ran in and bowled another bouncer first up. Chanderpaul ducked it, and then another, and then pulled one for a couple. The other Australian bowlers bowled their share of short ones, and while some might have complained about that, one can be sure Chanderpaul wouldn't have: pity is an emotion he never evokes.
He was on 86 when he was felled, with eight wickets down. As he went on to get to his century with a straight drive past Stuart Clark, a relieved Amy beamed in the stands, and the crowd went mad. Chanderpaul continued to chip away at Australia's first-innings total and was the last man out for 118.
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