10 Indian Test cricketers who never played white-ball cricket
Abhinav Mukund, Rakesh Shukla and Dhiraj Parsana are some of the names who, despite playing in the whites, never played limited-overs cricket for team India.
In the long history of the sport, many cricketers came to be seen as the future of Indian cricket but had premature end to their promising careers. There have been many stars who performed fabulously in Test cricket but were never given the chance to represent India in international white-ball cricket.
Many names like Rakesh Shukla, Raghuram Bhat and Abhinav Mukund had good records in Test cricket, but none of these players ever got the opportunity to play an ODI or a T20I match.
Here are 10 Indian cricketers who played Tests but never featured in white-ball cricket:
10. Rakesh Shukla
Born in 1948, Rakesh Shukla is one of the few Indian cricketers who have played only one Test match. Shukla, in his time, was considered to be one of the star players of the Delhi state team. He also boasted an excellent record in the Ranji Trophy.
Shukla played 121 first-class games, where he scored 3,798 runs. He also had 295 wickets in the format, which made him one of the best all-rounders in domestic cricket and one of the biggest stars of the Delhi team.
In the only Test that Shukla played, he was unable to bat. He struck the ball twice, taking the wickets of Roy Dias and Duleep Mendis. However, he was never given the chance to represent India in white-ball cricket.
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