5 Ranji Trophy captains who never played for India

#5 Pankaj Dharmani

Pankaj Dharmani’s one match international career did not do justice to his talent

Pankaj Dharmani captained Punjab in the Ranji Trophy for five years. Beginning his career as a wicketkeeper-batsman in 1993, the skipper added several feathers to his cap in his glorious career of 18 years.

In first class cricket, Dharmani scored 9,312 runs at an average of 50.06. He has 26 centuries and 42 fifties to his credit and also the highest score of 305 not out.

Dharmani had also scored an unbeaten 202 en route his 460-run seventh wicket partnership with Bhupinder Singh against Delhi in the semifinal of the Ranji Trophy match, setting a world record.

Dharmani did get a call up from the national team for the South Africa tour of 1996 but managed only 8 runs on his international debut. Given that he was a prolific performer in the domestic circuit, he should have been given a longer rope, but the selectors had other plans.