Virat Kohli is an Alien!

[Jackdaws]

Tendulkar has a pretty crappy team in the first half of his career. Rubbish bowlers like Atul Wassan, Doda Ganesh, Raju, Hirwani, Prabhakar. And a pedestrian line up with Manjrekar at No 3. In his whole test career, Manjrekar has 4 test centuries. Kohli hit 4 test centuries on the last tour of Australia.

Kohli is a 21st century batsman. Super fit, confident, everything is analyzed by computer. Chinks in the armor are peppered over.

We will never know how good he would be because he hasn't faced Akram, Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Warne, Murali.

I'd say Kohli is a better one day bat and mentally tougher.

Tendulkar would be a significantly better Test bat.

I reckon in 5 years, Prithvi Shaw will be India's premier batsman.

 

[Adonis]

That explains the extra ordinary batting skills

Most Indians will hate me for saying this...........But IMO Kohli is way better than Tendulkar

No he is not....None of his opponents now have likes of Wasim,Waqar, Shoib Akhtar,Brett Lee, Mcgrath, Warne, Murlitharan, Malinga, Shane bond etc..whom Tendulkar had played against...

 

[PakSword]

Tendulkar faced McGrath, Shane Warne, Wasim, Waqar, Saqlain, Shoaib, Murali, Donald, Ambrose, Walsh etc..

The ball was different.. the rules were different.. reverse swing was easy, pitches were mostly green, field restrictions, power plays etc, which give a batsman free hand today were very limited. It was a bowlers era where 250-300 runs score was considered a match winning score.

Kohli is a different era player.. it's a batsman's era.. 350 is the winning score now.. India plays considerable matches at home where pitches are roads literally.. field restrictions are there.. powerplays are there.. and most importantly, not a single bowler can match any one on the list I have provide in the beginning..

So no match.. I don't know how Kohli would have performed in that era to be honest.... but surely, he would have scored less number of centuries, no 200s, @ slow strike rate.. how much? that's the question which is extremely subjective now..

 

[padamchen]

Tendulkar has a pretty crappy team in the first half of his career. Rubbish bowlers like Atul Wassan, Doda Ganesh, Raju, Hirwani, Prabhakar. And a pedestrian line up with Manjrekar at No 3. In his whole test career, Manjrekar has 4 test centuries. Kohli hit 4 test centuries on the last tour of Australia.

Kohli is a 21st century batsman. Super fit, confident, everything is analyzed by computer. Chinks in the armor are peppered over.

We will never know how good he would be because he hasn't faced Akram, Ambrose, Walsh, McGrath, Warne, Murali.

I'd say Kohli is a better one day bat and mentally tougher.

Tendulkar would be a significantly better Test bat.

I reckon in 5 years, Prithvi Shaw will be India's premier batsman.

Gavaskar.

No contest.

Tendulkar faced McGrath, Shane Warne, Wasim, Waqar, Saqlain, Shoaib, Murali, Donald, Ambrose, Walsh etc..

The ball was different.. the rules were different.. reverse swing was easy, pitches were mostly green, field restrictions, power plays etc, which give a batsman free hand today were very limited. It was a bowlers era where 250-300 runs score was considered a match winning score.

Kohli is a different era player.. it's a batsman's era.. 350 is the winning score now.. India plays considerable matches at home where pitches are roads literally.. field restrictions are there.. powerplays are there.. and most importantly, not a single bowler can match any one on the list I have provide in the beginning..

So no match.. I don't know how Kohli would have performed in that era to be honest.... but surely, he would have scored less number of centuries, no 200s, @ slow strike rate.. how much? that's the question which is extremely subjective now..

Gavaskar.

By a country mile. In every which way that counts.

One run Gavaskar scored on those nasty pitches with that absurd skullcap against the Windies quicks of that era were equal 2-3 in Tendulkar's era and at least 5 in Kohli's.

Cheers, Doc

 

[pak-marine]

Tendulkar faced best of the bowling attacks first from the Windies then Pakistan and then Australia.

Today which country's bowling attack is anything closer any of those those three?

True very fierce bowling attacks those were ! and thats why i think tandulkar despite great scores couldnt get india a lot of match wins ! May be i could be wrong as i dont have confirmed stats proving the point

 

[PakSword]

Gavaskar.

No contest.



Gavaskar.

By a country mile. In every which way that counts.

One run Gavaskar scored on those nasty pitches with that absurd skullcap against the Windies quicks of that era were equal 2-3 in Tendulkar's era and at least 5 in Kohli's.

Cheers, Doc

India didn't have to face windies all year.. If you want to find out the true bowling era, you will have to come up with at least 4 teams that had world class bowlers..

Indian Batsmen of 90s should be given some kind of award to face West Indies, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, and to a certain extent, Sri Lanka all year long..

 

[rashid.sarwar]

Now make him god and start worshiping it

 

[Jackdaws]

Gavaskar.

No contest.



Gavaskar.

By a country mile. In every which way that counts.

One run Gavaskar scored on those nasty pitches with that absurd skullcap against the Windies quicks of that era were equal 2-3 in Tendulkar's era and at least 5 in Kohli's.

Cheers, Doc

Doc, you from a different generation. By the time I started watching Cricket, Gavaskar was already a commentator. I guess each generation has its favorite. My dad would about watching matches in the 1960s and maintains that Salim Durrani and Farrokh Engineer were the cleanest hitters of the ball then. And pretty much every West Indian player was almost a demi God.

 

[padamchen]

Doc, you from a different generation. By the time I started watching Cricket, Gavaskar was already a commentator. I guess each generation has its favorite. My dad would about watching matches in the 1960s and maintains that Salim Durrani and Farrokh Engineer were the cleanest hitters of the ball then. And pretty much every West Indian player was almost a demi God.

I was a little boy when I used to go to a family friend's home in Bombay (wasn't Mumbai yet ...) to watch test matches morning to late afternoon, all 5 days, on their B&W TV.

I have seen him and Tendya and Virat. And Dravid.

Runs on their own mean nothing. Though yes, the primary aim of cricket, and a batsman, is to score them.

I used to live cricket and every match. I watch very little nowadays to be honest especially post IPL.

Gavaskar was a different league. As were those demi God names like Holding and Roberts and Marshall (he was the quickest) and Garner and Patterson.

That West Indies team is by far the best the world has seen. The Aussies never came close to be honest. They were that unbeatable and totally ruthlessly destructive.

And they made songs on Gavaskar. There is no bigger accolade in world cricket.

Cheers, Doc

 

[PakSword]

That West Indies team is by far the best the world has seen. The Aussies never came close to be honest.

That's true!

 

[padamchen]

That's true!

I remember they toured India immediately after the shock defeat in 1983.

There was a one day in Jamshedpur (my hometown).

My dad and I were hearing the commentary.

They were so brutal (I guess they were really angry .... lol). Every second delivery was sailing out of the stadium.

Cheers, Doc

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Gavaskar is the best we have ever produced.

Cheers, Doc

I rate Dravid higher than both the other two.

I second that. He played the might Windies attack at their peak without a helmet and hardly any body padding.

 

[aman_rai]

Few days ago I was watching higlihights of 1996 WC, where the commentators (Tony Grieg I think) referred to Sachin as the Greatest batsman in the world currently. He was 22 years old back then, by the time Sachin reached Kohli's age he was already a legend. Sadly Indian team is now completely depended on Kolhli just like they did on Sachin during the 90s.

Not really... Team is dependent on Kohli but they can hold there ground without him also...
Look at Asia cup.. look at today's performance.

 

[YeBeWarned]

i like Kholi more than Thendulker ..

 

[Ajaxpaul]

There will be a batsman better than tendulkar, gavaskar and kohli tomorrow.

All of them are in hall of fame.

More important are a ganguly or a dhoni which can make or break a team.