Ranking 5 most under-rated cricketers of all-time

1. Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Whenever we think about West Indies’ batting legends in the past 30 years, Brian Lara or Chris Gayle are the names that come to our minds. However, Chanderpaul’s longevity is something worth appreciating. The left-handed batsman played between 1994 and 2015. In these 21 years, he possibly did everything he could have done for West Indies cricket.

His stats are quite remarkable. He is one of the few cricketers who have managed to breach the landmark of 10,000 runs in Tests. He is also the most-capped Test player from the Caribbean Islands. In 168 Tests, he has scored 11867 runs at an average of 51.37. He scored 30 Test centuries along with 66 half-centuries. In ODI cricket, he managed 8778 runs at an average of 41.41 along with 11 centuries and 59 fifties.

Through the 1990s and 2000s, Chanderpaul was the one player on whom the West Indies could trust, and seldom would he disappoint them. His weird batting stance is still being talked about but how effective that was for him isn’t discussed a lot. Even during his retirement, everyone felt that he didn’t get the due credit from his own board. However, record books will always show his greatness as a player in the numbers which he chunked.