Top 5 run-scorers in Tests between New Zealand and West Indies

#3 Gordon Greenidge - 882 runs

Greenidge laid the foundation for West Indies' batting dominance in the 1970s and 1980s

One half of the most feared opening combination of all time, Gordon Greenidge was an integral part of the domineering West Indies team which stomped all over opposition teams with sheer impunity. At the peak of his powers, even supposedly world-class bowlers would shudder whenever he limped. Such was his transcendental ability to overcome physical pain. From 10 Tests against the Kiwis, he smashed 882 runs at an impressive average of 55.12 with two centuries and five fifties.

Extra Cover: Greenidge and Haynes – Gods who opened for the team of gods

Greenidge played one of his finest knocks against New Zealand. On a green-tinged surface at Auckland in 1987, he scored 213 out of West Indies' first-innings total of 418. The manner in which he handled the threat posed by Richard Hadlee bespoke volumes of his menace at the top of the order. The opener's consistent starts helped lay the platform for his team to surge to a 2-0 series triumph in the 1985 series in the Caribbean.