Five Afghan greats who could not play their country's first test match

#2 Dawlat Zadran

Ireland v Afghanistan - ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier

One of their best talents in the pace department, Dawlat is a rare species in his country with his consistent knack to produce peach deliveries north of 140 km/h swinging both the ways. His whippy action, yet somewhat curving in trajectory, is reminiscent of Waqar Younis and often Zadran replicates him in ways more than just releasing the ball. In the World Cup Qualifiers, he turned up to the show with inspiring performances with both the bat and the ball, which made his appearance for the test side a very anticipated one.

An untimely knee injury ruled him out of the contest but had he played, he might have been able to make a mark in tests after being a proven white-ball performer. In 11 first-class games, he has a whopping 47 wickets, at an average under 20 and a strike rate hovering around 35, to put that into a frame of reference, these numbers are marginally better than Dale Steyn's first-class stats.

Yeah, look it up.