Players with the most number of International matches before Test debut

#3 Suresh Raina (116)

A match-winner in limited-overs cricket, Raina couldn't set the stage on fire in Test cricket

When you think of Suresh Raina, you think of an attacking white-ball batsman, a gun fielder and more than a handy bowler.

Raina debuted in 2005 and after few years of inconsistent performances finally nailed his spot in the 2008-09 season to become a bedrock of Indian ODI and T20 set-up.

Based on his returns in the shorter formats of the game, Raina was handed a Test match debut on the tour of Sri Lanka in 2010. He celebrated his debut with a hundred at Colombo but Raina's perennial weakness against the moving as well as short-pitch balling was exposed to the hilt in the succeeding years and he was subsequently dropped from the side after the disastrous England tour of 2011.

He made his comeback three years later at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2015 with little effect as the southpaw bagged a pair to effectively end his Test career.

Raina played 18 Test matches and scored 768 runs at an average of 26.48 with a solitary hundred; a stark contrast to his bloated ODI and T20I numbers.