10 great cricketers who were terrible fielders

3 Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin

India's off-spinning ace is well on his way to becoming one of the greatest spinners to have ever represented the country and his prowess as a batsman had also seen him climb to the top of the ICC rankings for Test all-rounders.

Despite his obvious excellence as a cricketer, it is perhaps his fielding that weighs him down a bit and at a time when global fielding standards are higher than ever before, Ashwin's struggles as a fielder stand out.

Ashwin is quite slow when he is supposed to move quickly and chasing balls heading for the boundary is often a struggle for him. On the other hand, he might know how to dive but his diving technique is often found to be thoroughly ineffective. That said, he is a safe catcher and hardly ever drops anything.