10 most over-rated international cricketers in the history

So many cricketers over the past showed unbelievable potential at the domestic level but failed to deliver it on the International stage. It is a common thing in any sport as donning the International jersey, representing your country with millions of people taking note of what you’re doing is a very different thing to scoring consistently in domestic conditions.

International cricket, especially in countries like Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc, where the fans are very demanding, can disrupt the players’ mental state. Sometimes the selectors end up trusting some players way too many times despite consistent failures, which doesn’t go well with the fans at all.

In the past and even in the current scenario, there were so many cricketers who fall in the over-rated category. Here’s a list of 10 names who promised a lot, got a lot of chances to represent their country but never lived up to the expectations.

1. Shahid Afridi

This could be very conflicting for a lot of Pakistani fans, considering he’s worshipped in that part of the world. But Shahid Afridi never really rose up to the expectations he created with his early burst. He smashed a 37-ball century early in his career and his leg-spin was touted to be game changing in the early 21st century.

He picked up 395 wickets in 398 ODIs, less than wicket-a-game, which is in very disappointing for anyone with over 300 ODIs. His cult status which he received through aggressive batting carried him with the team for a long time before he retired from International cricket in May 2018. He played just 27 Tests in his career.