10 most overrated players in the history of cricket 

#8 Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott was a very selfish cricketer

With a tally of 8114 runs in 108 Test matches, it will possibly seem a bit blasphemous to include former England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott on this list. But then, again there is some fine print that needs to be considered.

He was regarded as an incredibly selfish batsman for a start, and once he was dropped from the side after he had scored a double century. Reason? Slow scoring.

On the other hand, he seemed to have a gift of avoiding playing the best attacks. As former teammate Graeme Fowler pointed out, he claimed to have a mysterious back injury when the fearsome West Indians were in town.

He might talk a lot about his achievements while on commentary and while he was certainly an excellent opening batsman, he was not in the league of some of the greatest to have played for England. Also, he never quite succeeded in hacking one-day International cricket.