The most underrated XI of all time in cricket

6. Fawad Alam

Fawad Alam grabbed everyone’s attention with his awe-inspiring performances in the domestic level. During his early years, he was touted as the “next big thing” of Pakistan cricket. This immensely talented left-hander had a promising bright future, but destiny has been very unfair to him. He has got dropped from the Pakistani squad very often and has got very limited chances to prove his outstanding talent. Pakistan Cricket Board never properly utilised this naturally talented all-rounder.

Fawad Alam is a very versatile batsman and plays at whichever position assigned to him in the batting order. Fawad Alam has been Pakistan’s most indispensable players in the past few years. In the first seven innings of his ODI career, Fawad Alam batted at all positions from number five to nine. Fawad Alam’s mental strength, athletic fielding has been a very valuable asset for Pakistan team as they have always had a dearth of a world-class fielder.

He has also been vital in raising the fitness as well as the fielding standards in Pakistan. As he would turn 34 later this year, he would certainly believe he was hard done by many things outside his control. He was not given his justified amount of time at the top, while his first ball duck against Sri Lanka in his debut innings didn’t help his cause either.

However, with a first-class record that yielded 11,441 runs at an average of above 56, Fawad Alam would definitely go down as one of the most underrated batsmen of all time, given his depleted amount of opportunities that he was provided with.