Roston Chase has joined elite company, with West Indies escaping with an unlikely second Test draw against India in Jamaica.
Chase scored 137 not out to lead his side to safety, the home team losing only two wickets on the fifth and final day at Sabina Park in Kingston on Wednesday.
West Indies had reached 6-388 in their second innings when Indian captain Virat Kohli conceded a draw with a few overs remaining.
"It was just outstanding," said West Indies captain Jason Holder, who played his part with an unbeaten 64 batting at number eight.
"I just asked the guys to show fight and character. It was really good to see Roston batting an entire day."
If not quite qualifying as a miracle, the result was certainly unexpected after the Windies began the final day staring down the barrel of defeat, precariously placed on 4-48 and still needing another 256 to make India bat again.
Even though rain washed out most of day four, it seemed a formality for India to quickly wrap up victory and take a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series.
However West Indies dominated from the very first over as Chase and his fellow middle-order batsman displayed assurance and more than a touch of class.
Their performances will give Caribbean cricket fans hope their team has a future in the five-day format.
Chase, in just his second Test, took 5-121 with his off-spin in the Indian innings before showing his class with the bat.
He became just the fourth West Indies player to score a century and take five wickets in the same Test and the first to do so in 50 years.
Gary Sobers, the only player to accomplish the feat twice, last achieved that double in 1966.
"It's a great feeling I could help draw the Test match for my team after we were behind the eight-ball by a long way," the softly-spoken Chase said after being named man of the match.
"My aim is to be equally capable both batting and bowling but I prefer batting more."
He received excellent support from fellow 24-year-olds Jermaine Blackwood (63) and Shane Dowrich (74), who was unfortunate to be given out lbw to Amit Mishra, with replays showing he appeared to get a thick inside.
Blackwood smashed two sixes and nine fours in a 54-ball knock as he dominated a brisk fifth-wicket stand of 93 with Chase until he was superbly caught by a diving Cheteshwar Pujara, via bat-pad, off the spin bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin.
Chase then shared in a sixth-wicket partnership of 144 with Dowrich, who departed with the result still very much in the balance.
Holder, the fast-bowling all-rounder who knows how to wield a bat coming in at number eight, teamed up with Chase to assure the draw.
The rearguard action had statisticians searching the record books, revealing it to be the first time West Indies batsmen at five, six, seven and eight had scored half-centuries in the same innings.
Kohli lamented the rain that helped the Windies but gave credit to the opposition.
"Testing, that's what test cricket is all about," he said.
"Our bowlers tried their best. We created a few chances that didn't go to hand, beat them quite a few times but at the end of the day it was really good batting as well.
"You have to take your hat off and say well played."
The series suddenly has new life going into the third Test to be played at Gros Islet on the island of Saint Lucia from August 9-13.
