5 New Zealand players who were unlucky to have not played more for their country

#2 Stewie Dempster

Dempster's batting average of 65.72 ranks second only to Don Bradman’s 99.94 with a 10-innings cut-off

Touted widely as the first great New Zealand batsman, Stewie Dempster was an exceptional player of slow bowling who impressed equally in the domestic level as well as at the highest level of the game.

Dempster's batting average of 65.72 ranks second only to Don Bradman’s 99.94 with a 10-innings cut-off and it was a shame that his time with the New Zealand national team was restricted to just 10 Tests, in which he scored 723 runs with two centuries and five half-centuries.

He scored an unbeaten 83 in his final Test innings against England in 1933 before he decided to give up national colours and settle in England being priced away by Leicestershire millionaire Sir Julien Cahn who signed him up to play for his private team.

Dempster's first-class figures make for impressive reading having scored 12145 runs from 306 innings, including 35 centuries.