Notch up another accolade for Chanderpaul.

From the Guyana Times:

New Garden Street is now Shiv Chanderpaul Drive

As Guyana continues to celebrate our world- class cricketer Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the son of the soil will have a street being named after him.

On Thursday, Wayne wright Orderson, Director of Information Technology at City Hall, made the announcement that starting Saturday, the stretch of road between Church Street and South Road presently called New Garden Street will be renamed as Shiv Chanderpaul’s Drive.

This initiative of Mayor Hamilton Green will be undertaken with the blessings of the council and President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Last year, Almond Street was renamed as Lance Gibbs Street while there is also a Clive Lloyd Drive in Georgetown.

Chanderpaul was named ICC Player of the Year while the West Indies Cricket Players Association named him Cricketer of the Year.

He has also held our coveted title of Sportsman of the Year for the past five consecutive years.

Another special honor for this very special man. If anyone has any doubts just special of a cricketer Shiv is, then that magnificent over yesterday should have erased them all. The usual

Congrats Shiv, all these awards and accolades are truly well deserved. You have done exceptionally well to make an entire nation proud. A nation now tries to show its gratitude.

Cricket without rain...not in Guyana

The rain has arrived and interupted the cricket. Now really, who is surprised at this? It wouldn't be cricket in Guyana without some rain.
Let's hope the rain doesn't stay too long.

On another note though, why are members of the West Indies team wearing white tape over the Digicel logo on their uniforms?
We'll wait and see

Have a blast at the cricket today

So the day for the cricket is finally here and from all the pre-game buzz, it is definitely going to be a full house at the Providence Stadium for the first international one day match since the disastrous 2007 world cup.

England with their one win on this ground is one win ahead of the West Indies here, a stat that the local boys will look to correct by the end of this weekend. For those who will be at the game today (myself included), let's hope we have a great, incident free game of cricket while we are a part of the event that unites us all.

I hope that the Dj at the stadium shows up with the appropriate music today. No, I'm not talking about that 'daggering' crap. I mean "London bridge is falling down" and "We are the champions" by the tradewinds. It's been too long since the people in the caribbean have really had an opportunity to sing that song with pride.
Have a blast at the cricket...see ya there!

Shivnarine Chanderpaul gets an Upgrade from Bharrat

Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been upgraded by President Bharrat Jagdeo. It has been announced that Shiv will be awarded Guyana's Third Highest National Award, the Cacique Crown of Honor (CCH).

This is a great honor for the Guyanese Batsman who has become the anchor of the West Indies batting since the retirement of the Great Brian Lara. Shiv has produced exceptional results and while his innings have not always led to a West Indies victory, they have all virtually guaranteed that it did not end as a loss for the home side, or a heavy defeat.

Shiv personifies excellence, therefore the President should award this outstanding son of the soil, his country's highest honor.

Clive Lloyd being sued...

Clive Lloyd sued for $9.5M

Clive Lloyd, former West Indies Test Captain, is being sued by contractor Kailie Ramjohn of Lot 43 Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, for breach of contract.

The matter was filed at the Commercial Court Division in the Supreme Court, Georgetown, by Attorney Jerome Khan on Wednesday.

Ramjohn is claiming $9,556,798 as money being an amount due, owing and payable by Clive Lloyd for the construction work done on a two-flat apartment complex at Lot 150 Crown Street, Georgetown.

The Plaintiff claims that he entered into the contract to construct a new two-flat residential apartment building for $35 million.

During the process of the construction, Mr. Clive Lloyd ordered, authorized, and approved additional works to be done on the building.

These included works that were excluded from the contract that formed the total cost to complete the project.

In the end the final cost was $45 million.

Ramjohn claimed that he only received $36.9 million.

So when I first saw the headline of this article I thought that Mr. Lloyd was being sued by his former wife for support or something, but it turned out to be this instead.

I don't have much to say about this, except...HOW MUCH OF THAT MONEY THE CONTRACTOR PAID TAXES ON??

The GRA should use artiles and information like these to question individuals about their income and the amount of tax that they paid. There isn't anyone that can honestly tell me that this contractor paid appropriate taxes to the governement and here he is, suing because he was robbed, while at the same time he's robbing the government.

Congratulations are in order for Ramnaresh Sarwan

All of us, not just in Guyana but in the Caribbean should join in congratulating Ramnaresh Sarwan for a gem of an innings. It was a true masterclass and deserves the unconditional respect and recognition and admiration from anyone who has played or followed the game. It is a great moment for the guyanese people and West Indies cricket all-together.

Currently, another fine Guyanese batsman is ranked number one in test cricket but at this moment, there would be no denying that Sarwan is the best batsman right now. Since I wrote that, You and I should also keep in mind that Chanderpaul was ROBBED when he was playing quite well so there is no telling what he might have gone on to do as well, but ya know what, let us try to forget about those dubious decisions and not let them distract us from this monumental innings that Ramnaresh Sarwan produced.

Watch out for Chetram Singh, Frank Anthony and Bharrat Jagdeo to be dispatching congratulatory letters pretty soon...some people just always want to be involved, even that publicity whore called Robert Persaud might want to get in on the action...anyways congrats Ronnie, you're finally delivering on that promise you've held for so long.

Oh Fuck NCN, have some manners....

Oh fucking fuck NCN! I’m already fuming and ranting off about that asshole umpire robbing these West Indies batsmen and now comes the fucking no brain, dim witted television operators who keep cutting to commercials during the middle of blasted fucking overs. It was a crucial moment of the match, another West Indian was just robbed of his wicket and what do they do? They cut to commercial. I guess none of the idiots there can play cricket because they’re timing is pretty horrible. Who the hell cares about lotto’s cricket run game at that exact moment in time?

Gone are the good frickin days when there was more than one channel showing cricket, now people gotta settle for this bundle of crap that this lame, government ass-kissing station provides. Some of the people there should just go get some Jim Jones type Kool-aid and do us all a favor.

What the hell is going on with the Guyanese cricket team?

Fourth straight loss for Guyana in the current regional four day competition is totally unacceptable. Someone in the local cricket organization needs to make a divine intervention and do something to prevent this Guyana team from slipping into further decline.

Imagine this, The Windward Islands have 36 points, that's 36 more than Guyana. That is shameful! No offense to the Windward's, but they were always one of the teams Guyana could count on to do better than but now there's this.

Cricket has always been one of our pride, even when very little seems to be going well in our country, cricket often remained solid and gave us hope. When the WI team was struggling, our own national team was performing credibly...what went wrong?

Serious questions need to be asked of our cricket bosses and serious answers and solutions must be forthcoming.

Change is taking place in world cricket

Australia is taking licks, West Indies whipping England, what is going on in world cricket. Change is coming, whatever it is, it’s good for cricket.
The West Indies played a great game and won a good match but please people, let’s not get besides ourselves here, please don’t put too much into this solitary victory. Some people are already proclaiming that Caribbean Cricket have turned the corner, a rebirth of sorts but we should be cautious about these statements. While it really was a great victory, much much much is left to be done. The road back to the top is long and arduous but they’ve taken the first steps back.
Congrats Guys!

Sarwan scores 100...let's hope it's the end of his drought.

Shortly before Lunch on Day two of the first test against England at Sabina Park in Jamaica, Ramnaresh Sarwan hit his tenth boundary to bring up a well deserved century, his twelfth overall.

Congratulations Ronnie. Most of us know that he has been struggling for form for a long time now, and in the process many of us have gotten so tired and frustrated with him, however let's hope that his knock in this match so far, signals a return to form.

At the crease with him when he reached his milestone is a man who would know a thing or two about form, Mr. Bat all day Chanderpaul. Hopefully these two Guyanese will be able to push the West Indies to a excellent first innings score.

Guyana Crashes to second straight defeat

Two rounds into this years' four day regional cricket competition, Guyana is still without a point, currently we're in last place. This is totally unacceptable. Is the Guyana team trying to live up to the reputation of the region's senior team?
I heard some idiot say that we're losing because our best players were with the senior team, well you know what, the other countries are without their stars as well, so it's a fair playground. Our young guys just aren't getting it right
Before the slide becomes too steep, before this snowballs into a bigger mess resembling that of the West Indies team of late, the local authorities, headed by Chetram Singh need to start corrective action as soon as possible and do whatever is necessary to get the local team back up there with the big boys. It's where we belong, but we won't get there if we continue playing as we have been doing recently.

Chanders gets a few more accolades.

Fortunately I’m not speaking about those ‘our version of crystal’ things that were presented at the Cultural Centre sometime back. I’m talking about something much much much better.
After copping the ICC player of the year award and Wisden Cricketer of the year, and a few others, Shiv has scored four more awards. This time they are the Cricinfo awards. Cricinfo, for those of you unaware, is the premier website for all things cricket, past and present.

Shiv won the awards for Batsman of the year, Most Consistent Test Batsman, Best Test Batsman, Highest percentage of team runs. These are the rich and truly deserving awards for this son of the soil. During the period in question, he scored over 909 runs in 9 test matches against the top ranked teams.

Since the retirement of Brian Lara, Shiv has finally been given his due credit and one of the few remaining unfinished matters is for Mr. President himself to upgrade Shiv from the Golden Arrow of Achievement to the Order of Excellence, as he has shown himself to be more than deserving of it.

Disappointment

Can you imagine I've been lying in bed for the past 3hours waiting for lowly Bangladesh to end their pathetic innings just so I could watch Sanath hit a few thunderous fours and sixes and now when the time is here, the bloke goes and gets run out FIRST FRIGGING BALL...now I guess I'm supposed to follow the Australia game instead...what's that I hear? the beautiful sound of my bed calling it is...see ya, off I go to dream about the promise that this Country has, but more than likely I'll end up with a nightmare caused by the sad reality of life in Guyana.

Update: Sri Lanka did win and I did have that nightmare, something about Jagdeo for a third term (maybe I've been reading too much Freddie)