5 players who made their Test debut after a long wait 

#1 Billy Ibadulla

Khalid Ibadulla

The recent dispute between Australian cricketers and their cricket board on remuneration issues has raised this important question in cricket: What is more lucrative, representing your nation or making money?

Those who believe money to be more important than national pride can get inspiration from Khalid Ibadulla, also known as Billy.

The Pakistani cricketer represented Warwickshire for the major part of his career and played most of his first-class cricket in England. He made his first-class debut in 1951, at the age of 16 and for two decades, amassed a mountains of runs. The tales of his heroics with the bat in these games reached home and he was called to represent Pakistan against Australia in 1964.

Making his Test debut after 217 first class games, a record in Pakistan cricket, Ibadulla proved his mettle on his debut Test at Karachi. He tormented Australia on the first day of the match and scored a fluent 166 on debut. He stitched a partnership of 249 with fellow opener, Abdul Kadir and it is still the highest partnership between two Test debutants.

However, he refused to play in the next Test tours as Pakistan management was unable to meet his remuneration demands. But owing to his impressive performances in first-class cricket he was called back to play against New Zealand and later against England.

But the right-hand batsman failed to score any big knocks in these games and was sidelined. He then ventured into coaching and mentored several New Zealand cricketers.