India are one of the strongest teams in world cricket. Thousands of players dream of representing the Indian cricket team one day. However, day by day, the competition level to earn a place in the Men in Blue’s squad is getting tougher and tougher.
These days, players need to have more than one skill to receive a place in the Indian team. Bowlers often work on their batting skills, while batters try to improve their bowling. There are some specialist batters who rarely bowled for India in any format of the game. In this listicle now, we will look at five such players.
1. Rishabh Pant took a wicket for India in a practice match
Not many fans would know that wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant scalped a wicket for the country while playing in a game in Australia. He bowled two overs of right-arm medium pace, scalping one wicket and conceding nine runs.
2. Gautam Gambhir bowled 1 over for India
Gautam Gambhir was a left-handed batter who could also bowl right-arm medium pace. In 2006, when England played an ODI against the Men in Blue at Faridabad, Gambhir bowled one over, conceding 13 runs.
3. Abhinav Mukund bowled 2 overs for India
Opening batter Abhinav Mukund did not have a long international career, but he bowled two overs for the nation in a Test against West Indies in 2011. He conceded 14 runs without taking any wickets.
4. Karun Nair
Not many members of the cricket universe would have an idea about the fact that Karun Nair bowled one over in the first innings of England in the game where he scored a triple hundred. He returned with figures of 0/4.
5. Cheteshwar Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara has rolled his arm over just once in his Test career. It was against South Africa in Delhi in 2015. He gave away two runs and did not take any wickets.
