10 great cricketers who were terrible fielders

8 Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

One of Pakistan's greatest modern bowlers and the fastest bowler in the world during his peak was not always much of an asset on the field.

Akhtar wasn't a bad athlete by any stretch of the imagination, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to fashion that legendary run up that generated all that pace.

However, on the field, he did not always seem to be up for it when it came to chasing down fours or running a lot to cut down runs. In the process, he became a liability for Pakistan, at a time when fielding standards all over the world were improving at a frightening pace.