5 Batsmen who are overshadowed by current fab five

With every passing era along with every passing generation there comes an exquisite class of batsmen who flag their supremacy in international cricket. Be it the time of 1990s when both Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara were the undisputed kings. Or the decade of 2000s where the duo of Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis honed their uproar. Time and again the game has witnessed such kind of an elite virtuosity and in today’s time there comes the presence of the fab-five club.

Not long ago, the club mainly had four world-class champions but with Babar Azam being in its invigorating batting form across formats, the club has now fortified itself by adding him. However, with the game being predominantly called as a batsman’s companion at least in the arena of limited-overs, there’s a cladding of batters who actually have got overshadowed by the current fab five.

Although they may not be utterly consistent unlike the fab five across formats. But in their most comforting format, they do match the fab five’s finesse.

Hence here are five such batsmen who have got eclipsed by the current fab five: 

1. Rohit Sharma

There’s a no brainer that this right-handed batsman on his given day can completely wipe out the peerlessness of this current fab five. Ever since he has started to open the innings across formats in international cricket, Rohit can thus be termed as another integral spine along with skipper Virat Kohli in the batting department. Although in Test cricket one might still find him shallow, but at least in his home conditions, the right-handed batsman has been the biggest match-winner for his team since 2019.

Regardless of his struggle in the longest format, since 2013, Rohit’s forte has been the limited-overs cricket. In ODIs, he already has scored more than nine thousand runs and is averaging close to 50. In addition to this, his 29 ODI hundreds (also including the three double tons) rank him fourth in the all-time list of players scoring most centuries. Also, gone are the days when he was criticized hard for his underwhelming play in the ICC events as in the 2019 World Cup, the hitman amassed a total of five hundreds in the tournament.

His T20I record just like the ODIs also yields a similar kind of praise. As of now, he is the only batsman who has the most number of hundreds (4) in the shortest format. All in all, since 2017 the deputy chief has been an extravagant proposition for the Indian team at least in the limited-overs format. But because of king Kohli’s adroitness, one can surely say that Rohit’s aptitude has got marginally swayed time and again.