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Chanderpaul: Taylor can still be asset for Windies

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BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos � Vet­er­an left-han­der Shiv Chan­der­paul has warned against writ­ing off fast bowler Jerome Tay­lor de­spite the Ja­maican's re­cent re­tire­ment from Test crick­et.

Tay­lor pro­duced a lethal five-wick­et haul for Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons to help them beat Guyana Jaguars by 41 runs in the Re­gion­al Su­per50 here last Thurs­day.

Chan­der­paul, who played 164 Tests for West In­dies in a stel­lar ca­reer, said Tay­lor was con­tin­u­ing to dis­play all the signs of a qual­i­ty in­ter­na­tion­al bowler and could still prove an as­set at the high­est lev­el.

"We all know what Jerome can do and he came out and showed what he can do," Chan­der­paul said fol­low­ing the game at Kens­ing­ton Oval here.

"He's still got a lot of crick­et in him. I know he has re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al (Test) crick­et but he still has a lot to of­fer so it is up to him now to de­cide what he wants to do be­cause we can still ben­e­fit from him."

The 32-year-old Tay­lor abrupt­ly re­tired from Tests last Ju­ly ahead of In­dia's four-Test tour of the Caribbean but has re­mained avail­able for the short­er for­mats.

He fin­ished with 130 wick­ets from 46 Tests in a ca­reer in­ter­rupt­ed by a near five-year break due to loss of form and in­jury.

Tay­lor showed no sign of ei­ther as he com­bined with rook­ie speed­ster Rey­nard Lev­eridge to wreck Jaguars in­nings on Thurs­day, de­spite Chan­der­paul's bril­liant hun­dred.

Lev­eridge, in his first sea­son of re­gion­al crick­et, claimed three wick­ets in a pa­cy per­for­mance, and ac­count­ed for Chan­der­paul late in the in­nings.

"He (Lev­eridge) bowled de­cent pace. He's a tall guy so he got more bounce than Jerome but they both bowled well," said the 42-year-old Chan­der­paul who was dis­card­ed by se­lec­tors 19 months ago.

"Jerome bowled pret­ty sharp and he got the ball to swing. He got it to swing ac­tu­al­ly late ... so a few of our bat­ters he bowled some re­al­ly good balls to.

"He's still a very good bowler, he has a lot of ex­pe­ri­ence be­hind him and the oth­er guy Lev­eridge is prob­a­bly lis­ten­ing and try­ing to learn from him as much as he can."

(CMC)


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