Indian cricketers who were born outside India

The competition for national team selection is too high in India, as a result, some of the top performers in domestic circuit get ignored at times. This results in few players flying to other countries to have a chance of playing at the highest level. But it has not been possible for the players born in other countries to represent India.

However, there are a few players from the 20th century who were born outside India and also neighbourhood countries when they were part of India. In this article, we look at a total of 15 Indian players whose birthplace is not part of India at the moment.

Here are the Indian Test cricketers who were born in the cities which are not part of India anymore:

6. Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Only one cricketer born in Brazil has featured in Test cricket till date – Ashok Gandotra. The former Indian player was born in November 1948 in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. He made his Ranji Trophy debut representing Delhi at the start of 1966 when he was only 17. Ashok got a chance to make his India debut during the 1969/70 home season where he featured in two Tests – One against New Zealand and another against Australia.

Gandotra aggregated only 54 runs across the four innings he batted in those two Tests at an average of 13.5. Ashok’s poor performance got him out of the team and his underwhelming performances with the bat in domestic circuit didn’t give him another chance to crack Test cricket.

He moved to Bengal for three seasons before returning back to Delhi for the 1974/75 season. It turned out to be his last season of professional cricket despite him being only 26.