Nowadays, playing cricket in India is very joyful and easy as you can find people to play this game easily, but to play in the Indian Cricket Team is very difficult and a road full of stress and sacrifices. One thing the young Indian cricketers see as the gateway to the Indian national cricket team is IPL. IPL has given a big push to several budding cricketers and who have become superstars on the International stage, like Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah etc. However, some cricketers have left a name in the IPL history, but it was not enough for the selectors to recruit them to the National team. In the article we’ll look at these kind of players.
1. Siddharth Trivedi
The people who used to watch the Indian Premier League between 2008 and 2013, especially after 2010, would remember this right-arm pacer playing for Rajasthan Royals. He had scalped an impressive 65 wickets in the 76 matches that he played. He was going on well until the Spot-fixing scandal occurred, though he had nothing do with it. That incident came as the downfall of his career, and then, we never saw him playing for any franchises.
2. Paul Valthaty
Paul Valthaty was a promising talent in the hands of the Indian Premier League. The Mumbaikar represented Kings XI Punjab (2010-2013) and Rajasthan Royals (2008-2010) in the IPL. Even before the IPL, Valthaty had made a place in the Under 19 World Cup 2002, where an eye injury halted him from breaking into the senior team. Valthaty became a talking point between the IPL audience of his 120-run innings against Chennai Super Kings.
3. Ishwar Pandey
Ishwar Pandey is another one of those household names during the 2013-2015 IPL period. He represented three sides during those years. Pune Warriors, Chennai Super Kings and Rising Pune Supergiants were the teams that he represented. Ishwar played a total of 25 games and picked up 18 wickets with an economy rate of 7.68. However, he went unsold in the Auctions for the 2016 IPL.
4. Pravin Tambe
Pravin Tambe is a name that will go down as one of the most underrated IPL stories. He represented Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Kings in between those years. This right-arm spinner was a problem for many players during his time at the top. In his IPL career, he participated in 22 matches and took an impressive 28 wickets with a brilliant economy of 7.75. Pravin Tambe debuted in IPL at 41, an astonishing fact.
5. Shreyas Gopal
Coming to a player of more recent times, we have Shreyas Gopal. Shreyas Gopal has been a part of the IPL since 2014. He has represented Mumbai Indians from 2014 to 2017, but his more known instinct has been with Rajasthan Royals since IPL 2018. In Rajasthan Royals, he has been an integral part of the team, bowling crucial overs in the middle part of the game and even sometimes contributing with the bat. Shreyas has played 47 games in the IPL and has collected an impressive 48 wickets with 171 runs with the bat on top of it.
6. Sarfaraz Khan
Sarfaraz Khan made his name in IPL while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2015. He was the unorthodox batsman with an array of shots in his arsenal. Sarfaraz changed teams in 2016, joining Kings XI Punjab and representing them for 3 IPL seasons and then moving to Delhi Capitals in 2022. Sarfaraz Khan played 50 matches in his IPL career, making a total of 585 runs.
7. Shadab Jakati
Shadab Jakati is one of the most underrated players who could not debut for the Indian National Cricket Team. Shadab Jakati was a common name among the Chennai Super Kings. He played his best moments with CSK from 2009 to 2013. Jakati moved to Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2014 and then to Gujarat Lions to play a season in 2017. In the 59 matches played, he scalped an impressive 47 wickets with an economy of 8.01.
8. Rajat Bhatia
Rajat Bhatia was one of the most important players for the Kolkata Knight Riders during part of the start of the 2010 decade. He was a great all-rounder who started his career in Delhi Daredevils from 2008 to 2010 but shined playing for Kolkata Knight Riders from 2011 to 2013, even winning the IPL in 2012. Rajat joined Rising Pune Supergiants in 2016 and played his last game in 2017. In the 95 games he played, he scored 342 runs and got 71 wickets.
9. Manan Vohra
Manan Vohra is one of the most recognized NO.3 batsmen of all time in the IPL. The team that is associated with him the most is Kings XI Punjab. He started his career there at 2013 and became one of the fan favorites. He then left in 2018 to Royals Challengers Bangalore, where he got some innings under his belt and, then the following year, moved to Rajasthan Royals where, he has been since. In his IPL career, Manan Vohra played 53 matches and scored 1054 runs with a strike rate of 134.57.
10. Manvinder Bisla
Manvinder Bisla was a wicket-keeper batsman who gathered a great fan following, especially from the Kolkata Knight Riders fans. He played between 2010-2015 and completed 39 games where he made 798 runs, with the most vital innings coming in the IPL final in 2012, where he made his highest score of 89 runs against Chennai Super Kings to make KKR the champions. He was named the man of the match that day. He is one of those underrated players who made a name in IPL but could not make it to the national team.
