Former West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has continued to protest his premature axing from the national squad, insisting that he has given his service to the country but was not honoured in return.
“A lot of times I went back home to Guyana injured from tours that I’ve been on for West Indies and go back home and play, and you give so much service for your country and to West Indies and on the back end you were not properly honoured for it,” Chanderpaul was quoted as saying by Jamaica Observer.
Last year, Chanderpaul was dropped for the home Test series against Australia after his poor run of form that saw mere 183 runs at an average of 16.63 in the 11 innings that followed his 30th and final Test century against Bangladesh in September.
Six months later Chanderpaul made his formal retirement announcement and the Guyanese middle-order batsman believes his departure was not treated properly.
While pointing out he received an undignified farewell, the 42-year-old insisted that he was expecting a proper send-off like India’s Sachin Tendulkar after doing so much for the West Indies.
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