#5 Baba Aparajith

Baba Aparajit was the star of India's victorious U-19 World Cup campaign in 2012. His good performances there earned him an IPL call-up for the Chennai Super Kings, yet, he did not play a single game for the Men in Yellow in his stint with the franchise. Subsequently, after the CSK were handed a two-year ban, Aparajith was picked by the Rising Pune Supergiant in 2016.
There too, he spent entire two seasons on benches and is still waiting to make his IPL debut. Aparajith has to be one of the unluckiest cricketers in the IPL, to have spent 5 seasons without playing a game.
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