5 careers which never took off under Sourav Ganguly's captaincy

#1 Parthiv Patel

Parthiv enjoyed plenty of backing from Ganguly but was often let down by his shabby glove work

Another player who enjoyed plenty of backing under Ganguly's captaincy, Parthiv Patel made history when he debuted against England at Trent Bridge in 2002 at 17 years and 153 days to become Test Cricket's youngest wicketkeeper.

He enjoyed plenty of limelight further on when he was named in India's 2003 World Cup squad and though he failed to play any matches during the tournament, it was clear that the skipper had plenty of hope from the young wicketkeeper.

Already a regular in the Indian Test side, Parthiv started playing ODIs intermittently when Rahul Dravid was eased off his wicketkeeping duties at times and though he was decent enough with the bat, his glovework wasn't winning him many fans.

His errors Down Under during India's tour to Australia in 2003/04 proved extremely costly and there reached a point where the errors were becoming too common to ignore.

And then, a certain Mahendra Singh Dhoni burst onto the scene and like other wicketkeepers in the country, there was hardly any chance to get a look in.

Though he has made a few appearances here and there for India - the most recent one being in the Test series against South Africa - the flaws in his glovework is something which is still very evident and too much to ignore at the international level.

Still only 32, Parthiv has enough time on his hands to add to his tally of 25 Tests, 38 ODIs and T20Is thus far for India.