7 Indian players who played in India's last T20I against South Africa in South Africa but are not there this time

3. Irfan Pathan

Pathan did not have a good outing with the ball that day

sharing the new ball duties with Praveen Kumar that day was Irfan Pathan, who went for 44 runs in 4 overs, despite picking the wicket of Richard Levi.

After missing out on a lot of the action in 2011, he was brought back for the limited-overs leg of India's tour to Australia in 2012 and decent performances, combined with the non-selection of certain players meant that he boarded the flight to play the sole T20I in South Africa.

He was picked for the subsequent tour to Sri Lanka in August where he impressed with the ball and that also helped him book a ticket for the World T20 in the same country.

However, that event in the Emerald Island proved to be the last time that he played for India in the shortest format and it remains to be seen if he would get another opportunity to play for the national side again.