5 cricketers who had a terrible debut but went on to carve out great careers

Richards had a terrible debut against IndiaCricket has always been a game where you can expect the unexpected to take place. What may look like the beginning of something great can end up being a flash in the pan; on the other hand, a poor start may translate into success of epic proportions.The sport offers too many examples of this trait, some pertaining to individuals and quite a few others which apply to teams. There have been many legendary cricketers whose debuts were far from being even modest, but they went on to create history with their exploits later on in their careers.Here we have picked 5 such iconic cricketers:

#5 Saeed Anwar (Pakistan)

Saeed Anwar could only manage a pair in his debut Test

Performance on debut: 0 & 0 against West Indies, 1990

Test Career Stats:

MAT	RUNS	AVE	100s
55	4052	45.52	11

The Pakistani run machine Saeed Anwar had an incredibly poor debut as he got a ‘pair’ against West Indies at Faisalabad. No one had thought at that point of time that the southpaw will be one of the mainstays of the Pakistan batting line-up in the days to come.

In the first innings, he succumbed to the great Curtly Ambrose whereas Ian Bishop nailed Anwar leg before wicket in the second essay. It was only in the subsequent series that Saeed Anwar started to show his class and later went on to become one of the finest batsmen Pakistan has ever produced.