Brian Lara Picks Sachin Tendulkar Over ”Run-Machine” Virat Kohli
Jul 5, 2019 at 10:42 AM
Over the few years, the endless debate has been the comparison between Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar A lot of cricketing analysts, fanatics expressed their opinions on the best batsman between Sachin and Virat. The latest to enter the bandwagon is Brian Lara. Unlike everyone, Lara gave a unique opinion.
Brian Lara reveals that Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest cricketer for him He got a solid point that Sachin has played 200 Test matches and showed the way for the youngsters how it should be played.
Sachin Tendulkar is my choice – Brian Lara
However, he didn’t underrate Virat Kohli. He picked Virat Kohli as the best batsman in the world cricket at present. Irrespective of the formats, Brian Lara feels that Virat Kohli is the best batsman of the modern era without any debates.
“He (Virat Kohli) is a (run) machine. But sorry to say Sachin Tendulkar is my (choice),” he said after being conferred the Doctorate in Science (Honours Causa) by the D Y Patil University in Nerul.
Virat Kohli is an all-format player –
Though it was Rohit Sharma or Jonny Bairstow who is scoring runs at a regular basis, Brian Lara picks none would come closer to Virat Kohli in terms of scoring runs at will across the formats.
“But getting back to your question, no doubt there is a huge gap between Virat Kohli and the rest of the world in all forms of the game. Rohit Sharma might have got four centuries in this World Cup, (Jonny) Bairstow or whatever, if you want somebody to bat in T20, T10, 100 balls (cricket) or Test cricket, it is going to be Virat Kohli today,” added Lara
However, without any ray of doubt, we can call them the symbols of two unique eras of cricket. One faced the solid bowling attack with not much technical support and used to carry the whole burden of the team.
While on the other hand, we have got Virat Kohli. He has been pretty consistent on a regular basis despite the game being evolved vastly on a regular basis. Virat has always delivered the goods whenever it is required for the team under immense pressure.