Former Australian Cricket team skipper Ian Chappell feels Indian National Cricket team skipper Virat Kohli will surpass legends like Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and AB de Villiers and end his career as the ‘Sir Donald Bradman of ODI batsmen’.
Meanwhile, Kohli is currently the no 1 batsman in Test and ODI format. Recently, he also became the first ever Indian skipper to win a Test series and a bilateral ODI series in Australia. The talismanic run-scorer has 10,385 runs in 219 ODIs with an astounding average of more than 59. He also has 39 ODI hundred to his name.
Speaking on the best ODI batsmen debate, Ian Chappell believes Virat Kohli will overtake every legend to be the best ever. Chappell also believes if Kohli continues at this rate, he will finish with 20 centuries more than Sachin Tendulkar.
“Kohli reminds me of Richards in his approach to ODI batting; he eschews fancy shots and relies on a wide range of traditional strokes … As the only one of this quartet still playing ODIs, Kohli already heads some important statistical categories,” he wrote in ESPNcricinfo.
“If he were to continue at his current rate – an unlikely outcome as he ages – he would pass Sachin Tendulkar’s aggregate with more than one hundred innings to spare and nearly 20 centuries in advance of the Little Master,” he added.
Sir Don Bradman of ODI Cricket
In addition to, Ian Chappell sounded confident that Virat Kohli will finish as Sir Donald Bradman of ODI Cricket,
“If he even came close to achieving these amazing feats, there could be no argument: Kohli would be the Sir Donald Bradman of ODI batsmen,” Chappell concluded.
After finishing the Australia series on a high, Virat Kohli and his boys will aim to conquer New Zealand, which they have found in the recent years.
