10 Indian cricketers who played just one game and faded away

Getting an Indian team call up for any cricketer in India is a lot more difficult than debuting for another country. Because the game of bat and ball is so very popular in the sub-continent, almost everyone who instantaneously loves the sport wants to play for the Indian national team.

However, even at the professional level where there are 38 state associations in the BCCI to pick players and choose from, the overall pool of cricketers certainly get not less than any kind of a ginormous realm.

Perhaps even if someone then ascends and climbs up the entire ladder by reaching the national team’s shores, the individual needs to be sharply quick on his feet to fairly come good at its earliest. Otherwise, just like many many other exceptional talents, the player might come in and slip away in a whip.

Over the years, there have many such instances where even the years of strenuous grind in domestic cricket has still not been enough for certain players to make their mark in the national team.

Let’s check out 10 such players who played just one game for India and eventually faded away.

1. Faiz Fazal

Being well-known as a solid top-order batsman for Vidarbha first-class cricket over the years, Faiz Fazal finally played an India ODI game in the year 2016 against Zimbabwe at Harare. The cricketer, while making his ODI debut, also had become the first Indian player in 16 years who was debuting in his 30s.

However, his India call-up also had come on the back of an excellent domestic season where the left-handed batsman had scored a pile of 714 first class runs at an average of 44.62. Especially his three centuries that also included a match-winning 127 against the Rest of India while chasing 480 had brought him on the selectors’ radar.

Overall, while being the opener did mean that Fazal was in a long queue whose chiefs were the likes of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma. The 35-year old still has been piling truckload of runs in domestic cricket. With Fazal also being active in first-class cricket since the year 2003, the left-handed batter has played a total of 125 games and has stacked 8404 runs at an impressive average of 41.39. Also, unfortunately, Fazal’s name has never been synonymous when it comes to the IPL.