Greatest West Indies ODI XI of all time

#7 Jeff Dujon (wk)

Dujon is possibly West Indies’ greatest wicket-keeper

There are two certainties in the history of West Indies cricket - Lance Gibbs is their greatest spinner and Jeff Dujon is their greatest wicket-keeper. Standing behind the wicket to some of the most menacing pace monsters the game has ever seen and performing acrobatic feats to grab seemingly impossible catches, Dujon earned a permanent place in the pantheon of cricketing greats.

He was an extremely capable lower order batsman too and made more than 5000 runs in international cricket. Among the specialist wicket-keepers of his time, few batted more elegantly and effectively than this Jamaican hero.

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By the time he called it a day, he had already become the benchmark against which all the future West Indian keepers would be measured. Throughout the 1980s, Dujon's breathtaking wicket-keeping skills remained one of the most crucial ingredients of the West Indian success. With 204 dismissals in ODI cricket and 270 dismissals in test cricket, he leads the pack of the West Indian keepers.

Denesh Ramdin and Ridley Jacobs too are contenders for this slot but Dujon prevails over them by virtue of his phenomenal glovework. Regardless of whether it is Tests or ODIs, it is incredibly hard to imagine an all-time West Indian team without this great man as the keeper and hence, he will be our gloveman.