5 most underrated fielders in world cricket currently

The game of cricket has evolved a great deal and today the importance of fitness is paramount. In the current day and age, a team which has a group of fit and agile fielders generally go into a match with their noses in front.

Gone are the days when big fast bowlers would bowl their quota of overs and then saunter around at fine leg or third man region. Today with the advent of Twenty20s, there is no place on the field for the players to hide. Apart from batting and bowling, whichever is the greater suite, fielding should be an inherent trait in every fielder.

Over the years, we have witnessed agile and superb fielders grace the cricket field. Be it Jonty Rhodes, Paul Collingwood, Herschelle Gibbs, Ricky Ponting and so on. However, we take a look at 5 such fielders who have slipped under the radar but yet are worth their weight in gold on the field.

Trent Boult:

A brilliant fielder off his own bowling and anywhere in the field

The left-arm seamer from New Zealand is a brilliant bowler and when conditions favour seam and seeing he can win the match all by himself. But what is then unnoticed is his agility on the field and brilliance as a fielder.

In Test Matches, he generally stands in the gully or even in the slips and has pulled out some of the most sensational catches one can see on the field.

His catch to dismiss Denesh Ramdin in the fourth innings of the second Test v West Indies at the Basin Reserve in December 2013 will always spring to memory.