Shivnarine Chanderpaul stands up in Lancashire's hour of need
[ad_1] Lancashire 352 for 8 (Clark 78, Chanderpaul 65, Croft 62) v Surrey Scorecard Hunger is so often the best sauce. Having lost the first day of this game to seven hours' rain, spectators at Emirates Old Trafford gave themselves to Saturday's cricket with fresh intensity. The fewer balls, the greater share of scrutiny perhaps, and few batsmen devote themselves to their craft more assiduously than Shivnarine Chanderpaul , whose ability to bat long has been valued by every county he has represented. By the tall-shadowed end of a long day, Chanderpaul's painstaking 216-minute 65 might have faded from the memory and been replaced by the more obviously spectacular fifties struck by both Steven Croft and Jordan Clark . For their part, Surrey supporters could with justice pointed to the early breakthroughs made by Jade Dernbach or to the three wickets taken by Amar Virdi on a pitch which eased as the sun elbowed the early clouds aside. Yet it was still Chanderpaul who did the...