5 Famous cricketers who endured extreme poverty after retirement

Indian Cricketers
Dattaram Hindlekar on the right

#4 Herbert Chang

Herbert Chang (standing third from right) with the 1982-83 West Indies rebel team to South Africa.
1982-83 West Indies rebel team to South Africa. Herbert Chang is standing third from right.

Herbert Chang is a former West Indian batsman who played only one test in January 1979 against India before joining the West Indian rebel cricket team to tour South Africa in 1982-83.

As the international cricketing bodies banned South Africa for 23 years from 1969-1992, all the players in the West Indin rebel team were subsequently banned by West Indies from playing cricket for the country.

After being banned Chang played only the first-class cricket. Thereafter, he suffered his worst days of life as he worked in a coal bunker before living the life of a destitute on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica.

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