Tracing Chanderpaul's Indian roots

Guyana: Driving down the east of Guyana for about an hour, through beautiful sights of the Guyanese heartland, is a small village called Unity.

And this is where you can trace the roots of one of the legends of East Indian bastmanship. This is the home of a man by the name of Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

170 years have passed by, but in the Chanderpaul family, the Indian connection is still hard to miss.

"Sometimes I would like to walk in India, although it will be difficult to find any of my relatives there," Khemraj Chanderpaul, Shiv's father, says.

Chanderpaul's 10-year-old son Brandson is also left-handed like his father, and has a crabby stance like his. The talent - you know where it comes from.

On a concrete strip his grandfather makes him practice for hours; his aim to place his grandson's name along with the other Guyanese legends like his son, like Clive Lloyd and Ramnaresh Sarwan.

"He is more talented then Shiva and can play more shots," Khemraj Chanederpaul proudly calls out.

Scores of trophies speak about Chanderpaul's rich cricket career so far, having completed 100 Test matches for the West Indies. Chanderpaul has scored 14 hundreds, and interestingly five of them have come against India.

"All the 100s and the runs that he makes have been against India. God must have decided to show that he is their Hindu," Khemraj adds.

Even now, whenever Shivnarine Chanderpaul is free from international duties, he could be seen practising at his home turf, where he played during his formative years.