So Close Yet So Far: Top 5 Unluckiest Cricketers Of India
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Right from the time when a child in India picks up cricket bat, he aspires to don the famous jersey of the Indian team. Working day in day out, the child crosses all the hurdles and defies all the odds to slowly but steadily reach towards his ultimate goal of representing Team India. However, only a handful of those millions of aspirants manage to achieve the dream of playing for the country.

What makes it even a more hard pill to swallow for some is the fact that they fail to achieve their dream even after doing every possible thing they could but failed in their endeavor because of some cruel circumstances.

So here we are taking a look at five players who failed to make it to the Indian team despite being immensely talented:

Anil Gurav

Anil Gurav
Anil Gurav. (Photo: Twitter)

Such was Anil Gurav’s potential as a cricketer was that celebrated cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar had asked two of his most talented pupils – Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli to watch Gaurav’s strokeplay and learn from him.

Fondly called as the Vivian Richards of Mumbai and was tipped for greater things by many. However, Mumbai U-19 team was the farthest he could make and the reason behind it is as painful as his promising career ending in a disastrous manner. Anil began to deviate from the game when his brother Ajit joined underworld. As a result, Police used to pick up Anil and his mother repeatedly and severely beat them up to find out the whereabouts of Ajit. Unable to cope up with the situation, Anil took to heavy drinking and his promising cricketing career came to an abrupt end.

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