Shivnarine Chanderpaul used all his experience, he notched up an unbeaten 111 West Indies to 256 for five, and share the honours with India on day one of the first cricket test on Sunday.
At stumps on the first day of the three-match test series wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh was Chanderpaul's company 19 from 45 deliveries. The duo have added 56 runs for the sixth wicket in 13.4 overs.
Opting to bat, West Indies innings revolved around Chanderpaul unbeaten knock, for which he faced 167 deliveries and 236 minutes at the Ferozshah Kotla track, where the Indian spinners Pragyan OJHA and debutant Ravichandran Aswhin threat to start by visiting the top order. India's new spin twins shared five wickets between them.
OJHA finished with commendable figures of three for 58 in 29 overs, while Ashwin two for 79 in 25.
It was Chanderpaul in the seventh century test against India and 24 overall. Only Garfield Sobers and Vivian Richards (both 8 centuries each) scored more than a century against India.
In the West Indies last tour of the country in 2002, Chanderpaul, one of only two members from the current squad along with Marlon Samuels function in this series broke a staggering three centuries in four test matches.
Special 38-year-old left the soul of the Indian attack could be measured by the fact that he scored nearly 2000 works seven centuries and 10 fifties. And a staggering average of more than 70. Chanderpaul got a century when he swept OJHA behind square for a single in over 83. He faced 144 balls and spent 195 minutes to reach the landmark.
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