5 greatest Rugby Union players of all time

#2 Dan Carter (New Zealand)

Dan Carter

Dan Carter is the highest point scorer in international rugby with 1598 points collected from 112 matches. His achievement is immense considering the facts that very few players have been able to score more than 1000 points in rugby and nobody else has crossed the 1400 point mark. Carter is the greatest kicker that the game has seen and also benefitted from playing in a rampant All blacks team which used to get win a lot of penalties from breakdowns.

Carter won 2 World Cups with the All blacks and also featured in 9 Tri-Nations Championship winning teams. He destroyed the Wallabies almost single-handedly in a 15-minute burst in the 2015 World Cup final. His performance in the 2005 test against the Lions quite possibly remains the greatest individual performance ever by any player in Rugby. Apart from his matchless kicking, Carter was also very adept at playing swift passes, was a decent tackler and runner. He is indisputably the greatest fly-half in the history of the game. He also won 3 Super rugby titles with the Canterbury Crusaders in his 12-year long association with them. Moreover, Carter was the recipient of the World Player of the year title on 3 occasions.