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Xtra Time Web Desk: Indian cricket has always been blessed with enormous talented cricketers across all departments of the game in every era.

However, as they say, only having talent is not enough for a cricketer to shine in life.

To shine in the international cricket, apart from talent, one needs to have the necessary temperament, luck as well as backing from the team management and selectors.

Akash Chopra: He was a batsman who was blessed with the ability to come through from tough situations. Aakash Chopra played numerous crucial knocks for his state side Delhi, in the domestic cricket.

Unlike in domestic cricket, Chopra was never able to reach the same stats in the international level and once he lost his form, the aspect of his game turned heavy on him.

Chopra played 10 Tests for India between 2003-04 where he scored 437 runs at an average of 23 with just two half-centuries. He was eventually dropped during the home series against Australia in late 2004 and was never reconsidered.

However he continued to pile up runs at the domestic level for his state team Delhi and later Rajasthan, finishing with 10839 runs in 162 FC games with 29 centuries.

Wasim Jaffer : The talented former Mumbai batter, who instead of amassing over 10000 runs in domestic cricket didn't play up to the mark in International cricket as he was considered not to fulfill his worth according to the talent.

He has a total of 1944 runs in the international cricket where as in domestic cricket he holds 19410 runs. He was not as successful in the international cricket as compared to domestic format.

Ajay Sharma- Ajay Sharma will be remembered as one of the many unfulfilled stories of Indian cricket. Ajay Sharma featured in a solitary Test for India- vs West Indies in 1987/88, where he scored only 53 runs across two innings after which he did not get a single opportunity to add another Test cap to his tally despite consistent performances at the domestic level. He only played 31 ODIs where he managed to score 424 runs with just three 50s.

However, he continued to score heavily in domestic cricket. Sharma became only the third batter to rack up 1000+ runs in a single season. He featured in six Ranji finals and ended up scoring centuries in four of them.

Manoj Tiwari- One of the biggest unfulfilled stores of Indian cricket in the past 20 years, it will forever be a mystery as to why Manoj Tiwary never got a chance to play consistently for the national team.

He scored his maiden ton during the 5th ODI against the West Indies in 2011 but was once again dropped from the team. The Bengal cricketer made a return to the side for the Sri Lanka series where he scored a 65 in the 4th ODI but he was once again dumped as the Indian management continued to back Rohit Sharma despite his lean patch.

In 125 FC games, Manoj Tiwary racked up 8965 runs at an average of 50.36 with 27 tons. His List-A numbers are equally good. In 163 50-over games, the Bengal cricketer scored 5466 runs at an average of 42.37 with 6 three-figure scores.

Pravin Amre- A prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket, but was not so successful in the international format.

Amre, continued to score heavily in domestic cricket, was unceremoniously dropped from the Test team two seasons later.

Amre, holds the record for the highest individual score (246) in a Duleep Trophy fixture, featured in just 11 Tests in which he racked up 425 runs at an average of 42.5 with three 50s and one hundred.