Top 10 bowlers who never got their due because of the greatness of their peers 

#1 Colin Croft

The West Indies possessed the most incredible procession of fast bowling talent in the 1970s through to the 1980s and more often than not, if one fast bowler retired, another promptly took his place.

Colin Croft was another of those fearsome fast bowlers, who came into the West Indian team in the 1970s and quickly forged a reputation of being someone who could really hurt batsmen. The bouncer was his potent weapon and Croft's thunderbolts often saw batsmen running for cover.

Umpires often had to intervene. However, despite his obvious talents, he is never quite counted among all-time great West Indian fast bowlers and that is perhaps because of the presence of people like Michael Holding and Joel Garner in the side.

They were far superior bowlers and Croft only got to play 27 Test matches and 19 one-dayers for the West Indies.

However, the tally of 125 Test wickets at an average of 23.30 shows that Croft could have ended up as one of the greats of West Indian cricket.