International cricketers who never played any FC cricket

[cnerd123]

you two.

Although I can see *****'s pov here.

you got to know the origin of the 'lol you kid' meme to understand why this is particularly ironic

 

[marc71178]

Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar! Neither of them played first class cricket when brought into the side. In fact it was Shoaib Akhtar's first ever game with the hard ball on his international debut!

First class debut 1994/95, Test debut 1997
List A debut 1993/94, ODI debut 1998

So maybe not...

 

[Kirkut]

here's a game Shoaib Akthar played in 1994:

The Home of CricketArchive

Test debut was 1997 so fair to say Kirkut is telling porkies

So Akhtar was probably bluffing then, he told that he only bowled with tennis ball before his international debut to an Indian sports channel.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Wasn't there a chap who played on one of the early tours that were retrospectively upgraded to tests who died before the subsequent rebranding, so passed away unaware he'd played tests?

May or may not have been his FC debut too.

 

[fredfertang]

Wasn't there a chap who played on one of the early tours that were retrospectively upgraded to tests who died before the subsequent rebranding, so passed away unaware he'd played tests?

May or may not have been his FC debut too.

Monty Bowden died at 26 without knowing the two games he'd captained England in were Test matches, but he had already played First Class cricket

 

[CarlsbergXpress]

So Akhtar was probably bluffing then, he told that he only bowled with tennis ball before his international debut to an Indian sports channel.

Probably said it for a bet ?

Apologies for that.