Five Indian cricketers who were unlucky not to have played more for their country

#2 Vinod Kambli

Kambli's Test average is a tad above Tendulkar's

The career of this extraordinarily gifted batsman from Mumbai scripts probably the most-tragic stories of wasted talent in the sport. When Vinod Kamli stitched a 664-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar in a national-level competition as a teenager, both the batsmen were hailed as exciting prospects who could change the landscape of Indian cricket.

While the latter went on to do exactly that by bludgeoning innumerable records for the national side, the former got lost somewhere along the way. Kambli's meteoric rise to and in international cricket was nothing short of exceptional, but the imminent fall in his career was just as quick.

The extravagant southpaw played 17 Tests for India and scored 1084 runs with a stupendous batting average of 54.20. Kambli played over 100 ODIs as well, but his international career tapered off too soon for someone who boasted of such splendid batting pedigree. His negligence towards his career and disciplinary issues led to the downfall of this terrific talent, pulling the curtains on one of the most unfortunate career graphs in the national side.