Stuart Broad Rates Joe Root Higher Than Virat Kohli And Steven Smith

Dec 28, 2016 at 12:46 PM

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Stuart Broad Rates Joe Root Higher Than Virat Kohli And Steven Smith

England’s fast bowler Stuart Broad, who is currently playing for Hobart Hurricanes in the ongoing KFC Big Bash League, has nominated his three best batsmen currently with team-mate Joe Root topping the list.

Broad has picked Root as world’s prominent batsman ahead of the best in business; Virat Kohli and Steven Smith, which may raise eyebrows following the stats.

“I’d say Joe Root, but just because I’ve played a huge amount of cricket with him,” Broad said, quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

The 26-year-old Root, who is the strong contender to become the national side captain in Test cricket, has 11 hundreds and 27 fifties in 53 Tests to his name.

However, the 27-year-old Smith has 16 centuries and 19 fifties in 48 Tests and the 28-year-old Kohli has smashed 15 tons and 14 fifties in 53 Tests.

“I know that he makes runs in a lot of conditions, pretty much all conditions, and he has scored runs at really big times for us as an England team,” he added.

Given this, Broad has followed Root’s career closely and this might have pushed the bowler to pick him above his counterparts.

In 2016, Root is the leading run-scorer with 1477 runs at an average of 49.23 in 17 Tests.

“I think when you’ve played closely with someone for that long period of time, you see a lot of their strengths. He in my mind is built up to be the best player I’ve seen because I see him every day,” he remarked.

On the other side, Smith and Kohli featured in 11 and 12 Tests respectively. India Test skipper Kohli has aggregated 1215 runs at an average of 75.93 in 12 matches with Australian captain Smith amassing 914 runs at an average of 60.93 in 11 Tests in 2016.

Kohli, who was in the prolific form in the recently concluded five-match Test series at home against England, scored 655 runs which included two hundreds and two fifties with his Test career best of 235 in Mumbai.

“One thing about Virat, the only dismissal you feel in the game with is a nick. He’s so strong off the pads and he doesn’t really get bowled a huge amount,” Broad said on Kohli.

In what could be an exciting contest, Smith and Kohli will be face-to-face in February during the Test series. Smith is averaging 58.49, Root 52.80 and Kohli 50.10 in overall Tests.

Broad has got rid of Smith on six occasions and Kohli thrice in Tests.

In the conditions we played there, his hunger for runs was just spectacular. The likes of Steve Smith and Joe Root, they have this consistency of every time they go out to bat they’re just desperate to score big runs and that makes them the top of the tree – that makes them the best players in the world,” Broad concluded.

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