Top T&T spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine has been likened to vet­er­an bats­man Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul by for­mer West In­dies pac­er An­tho­ny Gray. Gray made the com­ments last night on WinTv's Mon­day night crick­et show. He said it was no sur­prise to him that Nar­ine is reap­ing the suc­cess he has been get­ting, as his work eth­ic has al­ways been tremen­dous. "Sunil is the Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul with the ball. I have no­ticed his move­ments for quite a while and his at­ti­tude re­minds me of Chan­der­paul." He added that Nar­ine lives crick­et since all he wants to do is play crick­et. "If you give Sunil a chance he would play crick­et all day and night. The man has a big ap­petite for the game." Gray was Nar­ine's coach ear­ly in his ca­reer and said he strong­ly be­lieves that Nar­ine will fea­ture in the up­com­ing Test se­ries against Aus­tralia in the Caribbean. "I think Nar­ine will fea­ture in the up­com­ing Test se­ries against Aus­tralia. He has proven he is a world class per­former and needs to be rep­re­sent­ing the West In­dies on the big stage."

Mean­while, Nar­ine said his mys­tery ball called the 'knuck­le ball' was de­vel­oped while he was play­ing wind­ball crick­et. "I used the knuck­le ball alot while play­ing wind­ball crick­et and my dad told me to try it out with the hard ball. "I tried it in the nets and it came out all right. This gave me the con­fi­dence to work hard­er on the ball and I am pret­ty com­fort­able with it right now." Look­ing for­ward to the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) in which he was able to fetch a price of US$700,000 to play for the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers, Nar­ine said: "I am look­ing for­ward to play­ing in the IPL. I know I will be com­ing up against re­al­ly big time play­ers and those who can play spin very well but I am com­fort­able with my game and look­ing for­ward to do­ing well." The Ari­ma res­i­dent said he in­tends to keep his game sim­ple and don't chance many things when he goes to IPL. "I am not go­ing to change much with my bowl­ing. At this point it is work­ing for me and I am go­ing to the IPL with my cur­rent strat­e­gy. Ac­cord­ing to how things are go­ing, I will then look to make the nec­es­sary changes."