Jaydev Unadkat makes ODI return after 3540 days - players with longest gap between two ODIs?

India pacer Jaydev Unadkat has created a little piece of record after making a return to the lineup for the 3rd ODI against West Indies.

The left-arm pacer is included in the Indian team for the 3rd and final ODI today (Tuesday, August 1). And with that, the bowler has etched his name into the records book with a unique achievement.

Unadkat played his last ODI match back in 2013. The Saurashtra pacer played on 21st November of that year against West Indies in Cochin. And the pacer makes a return to the ODI team after a long gap of 3540 days.

The 31-year-old has now become the Indian player with the longest gap between two ODI matches. His return has come after 9 years 8 months and 11 days or 9 years 251 days.

But Unadkat is not the player with the longest gap when it comes to players across the globe. There are six players who have had gaps longer than a decade between their two ODI matches.

Players with the Longest Gaps in between ODIs

Here are the players with the longest gap between two ODI matches in their career-

Player	Country	From	To	Missed Timespan
Jeff Wilson	New Zealand	28 March, 1993	22 February, 2005	11 years 331 days
Anderson Cummins	Canada/West Indies	19 Dec, 1995	18 Jan, 2007	11 years 30 days
Shaun Udal	England	28 May, 1995	21 Dec, 2005	10 years 207 days
Floyd Reifer	West Indies	7 Feb, 1999	26 Jul, 2009	10 years 169 days
Xavier Marshall	USA/West Indies	7 Jan, 2009	27 Apr, 2019	10 years 110 days
Nikhil Dutta	Canada	11 Mar, 2013	27 Mar, 2023	10 years 16 days
Wayne Larkins	England	22 Jan, 1980	15 Oct, 1989	9 years 266 days
Jaydev Unadkat	India	21 Nov, 2013	1 Aug, 2023	9 years 251 days
Joe Denly	England	2 Oct, 2009	3 May, 2019	9 years 213 days
Cephas Zhuwao	Zimbabwe	17 Oct, 2008	6 Mar, 2018	9 years 140 days