His father Shivnarine maintained an astonishing average of 63.85 in the 25 Tests he played against India but Tagenarine Chanderpaul will have to plot his own path. The 29-year-old will be West Indies’ opener in their two-Test series in India and he is more than aware of the enormity of the task.

“India has a great bowling line-up,” he says. “So you can’t take them for granted. You’ve got to go out there and give them the respect and try and score when you can.”

Chanderpaul has played just 10 Tests thus far, in which he has scored 560 runs at an average of 32.94 with one century and half-century each. Two of those Tests were at home against India in which he managed scores of 12, 7, 33 and 24 not out. “In the first Test [in Roseau], I didn’t get too many runs. [In the] second Test, I batt

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