Three Indian Players Famous For Just One Remarkable Performance
Published - 15 Feb 2020, 01:12 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:03 AM
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In the past, Indian players have broken and created various records. While some of these record-breaking players go on to establish their place in the national team, some others fail to keep up their performances and eventually get dropped.
There are a lot of players who are renowned for one of their spectacular innings, but they just failed to keep the momentum going.
Later, these players were dropped from the Indian team and now they are in the wilderness.
Fans remember their one solitary performance but they haven’t played for the national team for a long time.
Here are three Indian players who are famous for just one remarkable performance:
1) Stuart Binny
Stuart Binny made his international debut in 2014 and although he had a very short stint with the national team. he is still remembered for one of his magical acts.
In 2014, he created history by picking up six wickets against Bangladesh in an ODI, giving away just four runs.
This record, till date, remains India’s best figures in international cricket. It came in a crucial game as well, where the Men in Blue decided to bat first and could only conjure up a total of 105 runs.
The Indian team romped to victory, courtesy of Binny’s lethal spell, where he picked up six wickets and gave away just four runs.
In the following years, he lost his place in the Indian team and hasn’t recovered ever since.
The 35-year-old had been playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the past few years but wasn’t retained by Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the end of last season, and he remained unsold in the IPL 2020 auction.
2) Karun Nair
Swashbuckling batsman Karun Nair is another of those Indian players, who are renowned for their one solitary innings. He became only the second batsman since Virender Sehwag, to hit a triple century in Test cricket for India.
Nair scored his triple ton in the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, against England in 2016. His record-breaking innings of 303* in 381 balls helped India post a total of 759 runs at the loss of seven wickets.
Although, after making headlines in 2016, he was later dropped from the Indian team, to make way for Ajinkya Rahane.
Since 2017, the 28-year-old hasn’t played a Test for team India, despite making the cut for India’s tour of England, 2018.
He did not feature in that tour and has been completely sidelined from the scheme of things, ever since.
3) Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Hrishikesh Kanitkar played 34 ODIs and two Test matches for the Indian team but despite that, he is best remembered for scoring a match-winning boundary against Pakistan to help India win the Silver Jubilee Independence Cup back in Dhaka in 1997-98.
India needed three runs to win from two balls when Kanitkar smacked a ball over mid-wicket to snatch the win for his team. He played his last international match in the year 2000, yet kept on playing domestic cricket up until his retirement in 2015.
The 45-year-old is among those Indian players who are remembered for just one solitary inning.
Kanitkar is the only cricketer in history to score 8,000 plus runs in Ranji Trophy, without winning a title. He did help Tamil Nadu win a Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2016/17 season as a coach.
