Shivnarine Chanderpaul was awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy by the International Cricket Council .
He has scored 20,000 runs in international cricket , and in 2008 he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack , and as the Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council .
Shivnarine Chanderpaul