4 Indian cricketers who were one-series wonders

#3 Subroto Banerjee

Subroto Banerjee

Banerjee was a very promising fast bowler who made it into the Indian team in the 1992 World Cup. He was included in the Indian squad that toured Australia in 1991-92 and played a solitary test and few ODIs in the Benson Hedges World Series. He also took 3 wickets against Australia in Australia in the only test he played in his career. He then played against England in the inaugural match of the World Cup and took 3/30.

His swing and pace could have very effective in Australia and New Zealand, but he was not given much of a chance in that tournament. India bowed out of the tournament meekly after failing to make it to the last 4. Banerjee was a useful lower-order batsman too and made 49 runs in the 6 ODIs he played.

Banerjee could have been an ideal addition to the Indian line-up during the early 1990s as both Kapil Dev and Manoj Prabhakar were ageing and Javagal Srinath was emerging as a pace bowler. However, Srinath went on to have a long international career, but Banerjee, inexplicably, was dropped and never made it again to the Indian team. He settled in Australia after retiring from cricket and remains one of the many Indian cricketers with unfulfilled promise at the international level. He took 135 wickets in first-class cricket with an average of 29.83.