5 Batsmen who are overshadowed by current fab five

3. Ross Taylor

While the skipper Kane Williamson has been the chief in New Zealand’s batting order for a while now, Ross Taylor perhaps a bonafide legend is surely an unsung hero. By being the most capped player (439) for the Kiwis across formats, this stalwart has mainly played all his international cricket by batting at number four. Since his debut in 2006, the right-handed batsman has been a vital cog in his team’s many batting lineups thus making him the leading run-scorer for them in both Tests and ODIs.

By playing more than a hundred Test matches for his team, Ross has amassed more than seven thousand runs with an average of almost 46. In ODI cricket, Ross has in total played 232 matches and has fetched more than eight thousand five hundred runs (8,574). Also, a tally of 21 hundreds does make him the Black Caps’ most accomplished batsman in terms of most centuries and overall ranks him 12th in the all-time list.

Now regardless of getting dropped in the T20Is, Ross Taylor has played more than a hundred matches for New Zealand. All in all, one can call him a once-in-a-generation player for his country. But one cannot surely ignore the fact that often he has got overshadowed by his skipper in all three formats.