Top 5 all-rounders from West Indies in Tests

#3 Collie Smith

Smith tragically died at the age of 26

Collie Smith became the only batsman to score a century on his first appearance against both Australia and England. In 1954–55, Collie scored 169 for Jamaica against Australia which happened to be just his third first-class match. After that, he got a call-up to the first Test squad. On his debut, he scored 104 against Australia, and also scored 161 in his first Test against England and 168 in the third Test of that series.

In 1957–58, he made 283 runs at an average of 47.16 and took 13 wickets at an average of 38.00 against Pakistan in the West Indies. In 1958–59, in the series against India he scored 287 runs at an average of 35.87 and took 9 wickets at an average of 29.66. In the fifth Test at Delhi, he scored 100 and took 3 for 94 and 5 for 90, and in 1959, he set a league record of 306* for Burnley in the Lancashire League.

In the 26 Test matches he played, he scored 1331 runs at an average of 31.69 having scored four centuries and six fifties. He took 48 wickets at an average of 33.85. He died in a hospital in 1959 died at the age of only 26, when he was at the peak of his career having suffered from injuries sustained in a road incident.