5 players who made their Test debut after a long wait 

#4 Subramaniam Badrinath

Badrinath in action

It required 22 centuries, 6000 plus runs, an average of 57 in first-class cricket and ten years of hard work for Subramaniam Badrinath to make it to India's Test team.

And interestingly, that debut in 2010 arrived because the first-choice batsman was injured and the team had no immediate replacement. It was an unexpected gift and Badrinath made the opportunity count by scoring a gutsy half-century in his debut Test innings against a fierce South African bowling artillery.

But even after an impressive debut, further opportunities didn't arrive and the right-hand batsman had to content himself by scoring massive runs in first-class cricket.

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The middle-order batsman featured in only two Tests as Indian Test team during his era was filled with the fab-four- Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, and Ganguly who were impossible to displace.

Badrinath is still part of the domestic circuit and has scored 10000 plus runs in first-class cricket with 32 hundreds. He was unfortunate as he didn't get a long rope in Test cricket, but he proved his batting prowess by dominating India's domestic cricket for two decades.