Five bowlers who didn't do justice to their talent

5. R Vinay Kumar

In Indian cricket, there seems to be a unique relation between the name Kumar and the ability to swing the ball. Apart from Praveen Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vinay Kumar was another bowler blessed with ability to move the ball either way, a trait that got him into the national team.

The medium-fast bowler was known to be skiddy bowler who rushed the batsmen with a little more pace than expected .

Kumar has been plying his trade successfully for Karnataka in domestic cricket. Even in international cricket in the limited-overs formats, he proved to be a very useful bowler as he added a bag full of tricks to his arsenal like slower deliveries and cutters.

But he couldn't produce that breakout performance that could have established him as a key member of the Indian team. He got an opportunity to play at the Test level when he was picked as the fourth seamer for the Perth Test in 2012 but proved completely ineffective.

While Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets more swing and has been able to increase his pace to earn a regular spot in the Indian side, Vinay Kumar's inability to do the same has left him in a lurch and put him a long way back in the pecking order of Indian seam bowlers. Currently, he is far from being anywhere close to the national team and has been overshadowed by bowlers with more pace or more guile.