5 most underrated bowlers in world cricket right now

Bowling is a difficult art and only a select few are able to master it. It is truly a sight to behold when bowlers dominate proceedings.

In world cricket, there are some bowlers who are often overlooked and not rated as highly as others. They are not appreciated and their skills are highly undervalued.

Here, we look at five such bowlers who play crucial roles for their teams but still do not get the recognition they deserve:

#5 Graeme Cremer

Graeme Cremer, the Zimbabwe skipper, has grown in stature ever since he led his team to a famous ODI series win on Sri Lankan soil. He is a quality leg-spinner who can bowl a lethal leg-break and a vicious googly that batsmen fail to pick.

But his greatest strength is the drift he gets in the air, which is a result of the revolutions he puts on the ball. He is an ideal spinner for non-spinning tracks due to his ability to vary the pace of his deliveries.

Zimbabwe currently linger at the bottom of the ICC rankings in all formats and this works against Cremer immensely. Not much is expected of Zimbabwe when they come up against some established Test playing nations.

The nation is not known to produce match-winners. Even though Cremer has shown great promise, he is not rated as highly as some of the bowlers from Test-playing nations.

If his recent accomplishments are anything to go by, then he is destined for bigger and better things. Zimbabwe now have a star of their own, but they need to play a lot of top-level cricket to properly utilise his potential.