Batting maestros Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli have been the heartbeat of great Indian cricket fanatics. While Tendulkar has entertained the crowds in the first decade of the 2000s, Kohli has taken the game to a whole new level in the next decade. Picking between the two greats have a tough answer and recently, former Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram joined the bandwagon.
Since Kohli meteoric rise in international cricket, the comparisons between him and Sachin Tendulkar have grown with each passing day. Recently, Pakistan great Wasim Akram, who has bowled plenty to Tendulkar during their playing days, believes if he were to bowl to Kohli, the chances of knocking him out would be more than the man he’s often compared to.
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“He (Virat) is a modern great. Compared to Sachin, two different players altogether. He’s very aggressive, as a person, as a batsman – positive aggression. Sachin was calm and yet aggressive; different body language. So as a bowler you read that as well,” Akram told Aakash Chopra on his YouTube Channel.
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“Sachin knew that if I would try and sledge him, he would get even more determined. This is my take and I might be wrong. If I am to sledge Kohli will lose his temper. So, when a batsman gets angry, perhaps he will attack you and that is when you have the maximum chances of getting him out,” he added.
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli is nearing Sachin Tendulkar’s maximum ODI hundred of 49 centuries. Kohli, who has 43 to his name is more likely to break it soon and become the first batsman to register 50 ODI tons. However, Wasim Akram believes it will be difficult for the current India skipper to topple other records of the master blaster.
