4 Indian Domestic Cricketers Who Later Played For A Different Country

Domestic cricket lays the foundation of any cricket team. If a player wants to represent the national side, he has to do well in the domestic circuit. Likewise, the Indian domestic circuit is also pivotal in shaping the cricketing standards in the country.

In the Indian domestic circuit too, players fight to create a name for themselves so that they can go on to represent the senior national side in the future. However, India is a populous country and the chance of talent meeting the opportunity is quite less here. The same thing takes place in the cricketing spectrum as well.

Today, we’ll tell you about those 4 players who did well in the Indian domestic circuit but when they did not get a chance to play for the national side, they went on to represent other countries on the international stage.

4 Indian Cricketers Who Later Represented Another Country

1. Krishna Chandran (UAE)

Many players dreamt of representing the Indian cricket team while playing domestic cricket. Krishna Chandran from Kerala has been one of them. Krishna Chandran started playing domestic cricket for Kerala and played for many years. But when he did not get a chance to move ahead from domestic cricket here, he turned to UAE and managed to play from there. He has played a total of 12 ODIs for the UAE.

2. Swapnil Patil (UAE)

Swapnil Patil, who played for Maharashtra in India’s domestic cricket, played domestic cricket for a long time. He played a lot of domestic cricket for Maharashtra and when he saw he couldn’t move further, he decided to go to UAE. He managed to play in ODIs and T20Is there. In this way, Swapnil Patil became the player to play for another country after playing domestic cricket for India.

3. Munis Ansari (Oman)

In Indian domestic cricket, Indore-born fast bowler Munis Ansari continued to play for Madhya Pradesh for a long time. Munis Ansari was looking forward to playing with India after playing for the Madhya Pradesh team for many years. But seeing no such opportunity here, he travelled to Oman. After that, he was successful in playing international cricket for Oman. Munis Ansari played ODI cricket for Oman.

4. Jeet Raval (New Zealand)

New Zealand cricket team opener Jeet Raval is part of the Test team. Jeet Raval may have been removed from the team at the moment but he has been handling the opening of the Test for the New Zealand team for the last few years. Jeet Raval also played some excellent innings with New Zealand. The most important thing is that he was born in Ahmedabad.

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