Only 14 cricketers have featured among the top 3 run-getters and wicket-takers in the same calendar year in Test cricket.
Dwayne Smith added Jonty Rhodes and Ricky Ponting were fantastic fielders.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the only active West Indies cricketer to play.
However, his reputation transcended the field of play and was known as one of the greatest statesmen in the game. Worrell was West Indies’ first black captain and a revered figure around the world.
Rice played in the era of the four great all-rounders — Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee.
Garry Sobers was a superb batsman and with the ball he was capable enough to make it to the side as a bowler alone.
Garry Sobers is arguably the greatest cricketer the world has seen. In 93 Tests, he scored 8032 runs at an average of 57.78 with 26 tons — one of them being the then record of 365 not out.
On his debut Test series, Sunil Gavaskar plundered 774 runs, which remains a record till date for the most runs scored by someone in their first assignment.
Australia has been a country where many touring cricketers fell in love with Australian girls and subsequently got married to their love.