THOUGH just two Tests with Tagenarine Chanderpaul as his opening partner, West Indies Test captain, Kraigg Brathwaite, has voiced positive words over the young Chanderpaul’s ability.

Brathwaite, who is the lone West Indian on the ICC Test team of the year, expressed a view that the 26-year-old has the ingredients that can pilot him to world success after a superb start to his Test career against a highly-rated Australian bowling attack.

Brathwaite recently stated in a recent press briefing, “Tage, I think he is World-Class”.

After racking up 439 runs at 73.16, only second to Brathwaite in the preceding First-Class season, Chanderpaul went to Australia, and against the menacing likes of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood, Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon, produced scores of 51, 45, 47 and 17 in the two Tests.

In the warm-up match against the Prime Minister’s XI, he cracked 119 and 56.

“When you look at the simple leave-alone that he has, he is going to be a world-class Test batsman. Obviously, he has the patience, and he still has the shots on some good Australian pitches, where his strike rate was higher than normal. I really think he has a very bright future and he is a very focused and determined guy, and for sure he will make many West Indians proud”, Brathwaite went on to express with confidence.

The son of legendary West Indies cricketer, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, he likely will justify the glaring compliments when the tour of Zimbabwe gets underway on January 28 with a four-day warm-up match followed by the two Tests from February 4.

It will be conditions ‘Tage’, as he is commonly called, would be more at home to and a chance to ‘cash-in’ big ahead of two Tests in South Africa in March, this year.