Bulawayo: After Shivnarine Chanderpaul, his son Tagenarine Chanderpaul scored a century in Test cricket. With this, Tagenarain was also able to get a place in the unprecedented list of father and son scoring centuries in Tests. Tagenarine’s achievement was in the first test against Zimbabwe. Tagenarine scored his maiden century in the third Test of the series. Tagenarain’s opening partner and skipper Craig Brathwaite also scored a century. Both of them have scored 221 runs for the first wicket when stumped on the second day.
Tagenarine scored an unbeaten 101 off 291 balls with 10 fours and a six. Brathwaite is on 116 off 246 balls with seven fours. Only 89 overs could be bowled in two days due to rain. Despite five men bowling for Zimbabwe, they could not break the opening partnership. The Zimbabwe-West Indies series consists of two Tests. The second match is from February 12.
Lala Amarnath, Mohinder Amarnath, Vijay Manjrekar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Iftikhar Ali Khan Patodi and Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi are father and son who scored centuries in Tests. In this, Iftikhar scored a century for England. Shivnarine, one of West Indies’ all-time greatest Test batsmen, has scored 11,867 runs in 164 Tests with 30 centuries. Two double centuries are also in the name. Batting average 51.37. Chanderpaul has 8778 eleven centuries in 268 ODIs with an average of 41.41.
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