Father-son duo of Shivnarine and Tagenarine Chanderpaul scored fifties in the same first-class match

Cricket is a game of possibilities, every now and then we witness something that surprises us. We have seen a few times in the past two brothers featuring in the same playing XI. Steve and Mark Waugh, Yusuf and Irfan Pathan, Morne and Albie Morkel are some of the known brother pairs to have represented their countries.

Every cricketer is most likely to have played with his father in his childhood in their own backyard. The game has had so many father-son pairs to have played the game but in different eras. Chris and Stuart Broad, Sunil and Rohan Gavaskar, Peter and Shaun Pollock and a few others make it to the unique list.

Ever wondered if a father and his son play together for a team? Well, the improbable happened in the Caribbean when the legendary batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his son Tagenarine Chanderpaul not only played for the same first class side but also scored their individual half-centuries in the same innings of the match.

The 42-year-old Shivnarine and his 20-year-old son batted for Guyana in the regional four-day tournament at Sabina Park, Jamaica and became the first father-son duo to notch fifties in the same first-class match. Where the son opened the innings, his father joined him at number 5 and the duo added 38 runs together for the fourth wicket.

They have batted together for the same side before as well but it was the first time both scored fifties in the same innings. Interestingly, in a non-first-class game earlier, both had scored hundreds batting together. Playing for Gandhi Youth Organisation against Transport Sports Club in 2012, they had put together a stand of 256 runs.

To add to the flavour, Tagenarine was born two years after his father made his international debut in the year 1994 and now they have taken their cricket at home to the actual cricketing field.

It is incredible for Shivnarine to be still active and scoring prolifically in the game. He is the second highest run-getter for West Indies in Test cricket with 11,867 runs, only behind Brian Lara. His son already looks very similar to his father in his batting style and in the method of marking the guard using a bail. Shivnarine would be hoping his son replicates what he did for the country.