7 Prominent players who beat the odds to play international cricket

5. Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan):

Cricket is not one of the most cheapest games to play, but lack of money doesn’t stop one from achieving his dreams. And Mohammad Yousuf is one of them. Picked up from Obscurity of slums in Lahore, he went on to become one of the greatest batsmen to have hailed from Pakistan. He did not have money during his childhood to buy a bat. In spite of not having cricket as a primary career option, he was reputed for his shot selection. Once picked for a local game to fill up the team members for a city league, he scored a century in his first match, and the rest is history for this Pakistani great.