Workforce India’s thirteenth World Cup look is simply across the nook, set to happen on their dwelling turf in October this 12 months.

All through the years, India has seen cricketing legends shine within the World Cup highlight, but there stays a gaggle of gifted people who, regardless of contributing quite a bit to the crew, missed out on donning the Indian colors through the international occasion.

Let’s check out the highest three gamers who’ve been legends for India however by no means performed within the World Cup for the nation:

1. Ishant Sharma

Entrance and middle, it’s Ishant Sharma. Storming onto the ODI scene in 2007, the Delhi pacer wreaked havoc along with his tempo and swing, however the World Cup stage remained past his attain for India. He got here shut in 2015, however an premature harm dashed his desires and left him on the sidelines for the World Cup get together.

Ishan Sharma ODI Profession Stats

2. VVS Laxman

Coming in second is VVS Laxman, a real Check match wizard. He dominated the longest format of the sport with greater than a century of appearances [130], however the 50-overs format was not his forte. Even after taking up 86 ODIs, the World Cup call-up remained a troublesome nut to crack for him.

He did come very shut to creating the World Cup squad again in 2003, nonetheless, Dinesh Mongia was most well-liked over him on the final second.

VVS Laxman ODI Profession Stats

3. Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan, the mid-2000s left-arm wizard, was India’s secret weapon again then. But, the World Cup by no means handed him the mic. He did handle a gig on the T20 World Cup, however the true 50-overs extravaganza remained elusive for him.

Irfan Pathan ODI Profession Stats

Along with the main three who couldn’t grace the World Cup for India, there’s one other group together with RP Singh, Amit Mishra, Parthiv Patel, and Praveen Kumar. Regardless of their commendable roles within the Indian crew, the World Cup stage remained out of attain.