Records
Chanderpaul holds a number of batting records, in particular:
- Chanderpaul is one of only six players to have gone 1,000 minutes in Test cricket without conceding his wicket. He has done this four times, and is the only player to have done so more than once.
- He is also the only batsman in the history of Test cricket to have faced 1,000 consecutive balls without getting out.
- He is the one of only four batsmen to have averaged more than 100 in two different calendar years (*qualification 400 runs) and the only one other than Sir Donald Bradman to do so in consecutive years.
- Chanderpaul has scored the fourth fastest Test Hundred off 69 balls in the history of the game against Australia at Georgetown, Guyana.
- He is currently the 2nd highest run scorer for the West Indies after Brian Lara, with over 10,000 test runs, having overtaken Viv Richards on 17 May 2009.
- He is one of only three players to score half-centuries in seven consecutive Test innings.
- He is the second West Indies batsman after Brian Lara (11,953 runs) to score 10,000 or more runs in test cricket.
- He is the most capped Test player of West Indian Cricket history as he has now stood in 140 Test Matches.
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