4 great Australian cricketers who never played in a World Cup

#1 Justin Langer

Justin Langer is a Test cricket legend

Langer is easily one of the greatest top order batsmen to have ever played for Australia. His transformation into one of the world's leading opening batsmen in the latter part of his career makes him one of the true greats of the game.

In addition to that, along with Matthew Hayden, Langer brought a brand of attacking batsmanship to opening batting that often demoralized the opposition within a fairly short period of time.

But despite all that, Langer became branded as a Test match player and only ever played 8 ODIs for the Australian team throughout the course of his career that spanned around 14 years.

What is even more interesting is that although he retired from international cricket in 2007, he played his last ODI almost a decade earlier - in 1997. Australia's sheer riches of talent meant that they could ignore the prowess of players like Langer and still win three consecutive World Cups in that period.