7 well-known Indian cricketers who have never played a World Cup game

#2 Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan

India's leading left-arm speedster of the mid-2000s surprisingly never wore the World Cup colors for his country. Irfan had a relatively successful career in a short period of time picking 173 wickets in 120 games.

Irfan Pathan's career was separated into two halves, the first one where he made his mark on the international scene and the second one where everything went downhill for him. Irfan was not a regular after 2009. He made a brief comebacks in 2011 and 2012 but his international career was done and dusted.

1) VVS Laxman

VVS Laxman

India's legendary test batsman VVS Laxman had a moderately successful ODI career. He played 86 ODIs scoring 2338 runs at a lukewarm average of 30.8. Laxman was a part of India's 2003 World Cup squad as a spare batsman and had to sit out throughout the tournament.

He did not feature in the 1999 and 2007 World Cup and hence his dream of playing a World Cup game wearing the Indian colors was never fulfilled. Laxman remains one of the only two cricketers in the post-World Cup era to play 100 tests but not a single World Cup game alongside Australia's Justin Langer.