5 Indian players who were part of the World Cup squad but never got a game

#3 Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel made headlines when he made his debut against England in 2002 at the age of 17 years and 153 days to become the youngest wicket-keeper to play Test cricket.

Within just eight months after his debut, Parthiv Patel was included in the 15-member squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 as a specialist wicket-keeper but did not get a single game under his belt as the management decided to play an extra batsman with Rahul Dravid donning the wicket-keeper's role for the whole tournament. But the sad part is that Parthiv also missed out on his high-school board examinations during that period.

With the rise of MS Dhoni as a wicketkeeper-batsman and Parthiv's poor show behind the stumps, Parthiv's career slowly faded.

Parthiv represented India in 25 Tests, 38 ODIs and 2 T20Is and scored around 1700 runs with the help of 10 fifties in all formats combined.