10 most overrated players in the history of cricket 

#2 Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi is an overrated legend

He is often regarded as a legend of the game and has some sort of a cult following, but, Shahid Afridi was largely a street cricket batsman, who ended up having a pretty fruitful career at the top level.

He played some absolutely unforgettable innings throughout the course of his career, and scored two of the fastest hundreds in ODI history, but a career tally of 6 centuries is a meagre return.

Particularly, when he opened the batting for Pakistan for a large portion of his career. A strike rate of 117 is incredible, but, an average of 23.57 makes that strike rate totally pointless. He only played 27 Tests in his career and averaged 36.51, which is again a mediocre return.

However, what is amusing is that his batting gets so much attention despite Afridi being an extremely ordinary batsman but his bowling does not. Towards the end of his career, he was one of the most lethal bowlers in limited overs cricket.