Virat Kohli is one of the leading players of all time: Sachin Tendulkar

Virat Kohli, with the way he is playing at the moment, is likely to break all the records of his idol Sachin Tendulkar. Parallels are being drawn between the two cricketers and clearly, the Indian captain is matching the master blaster. Rather if the statistics are looked into, he is trumping the greats of the game comfortably. However, Sachin himself has now lauded Kohli for his batting and at the same time went on to add that he never believed in comparisons.

Kohli, recently, completed 10,000 runs in ODI format and became the fastest to get to the milestone. He crossed the five-figure mark in 205 innings and was easily ahead of Tendulkar who was the record holder earlier. The 29-year-old is currently on a century-hitting spree as well and has a total of 61 tons to his name in the international circuit. There is no doubt that Sachin’s record of 100 international centuries is under threat and amazingly, it will be most probably broken by an Indian.

I always saw spark in him

Sachin Tendulkar, while speaking to the reporters after the first India camp of the Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy, hailed Virat Kohli for carrying the Indian team on his shoulders successfully and termed him as one of the best players of all-time.

“Coming to Virat’s development as a player, I think he has developed immensely. And I always saw that spark in him. I always felt that he is going to be one of the leading players in the world, not just of this generation, but one of the leading players of all time,” he was quoted as saying by India TV.

I never believed in comparisons

The former India great also added that it is unfair on the players to compare them. He pointed out how rules have changed over the years in ODI cricket and comparisons only demean the effort of the cricketer. “I think first of all, like how Virat has said and I have been saying for 24 years that I have played. I have never believed in comparison. Each generation if you take from the time cricket was played from day one to now, the change has been constant.

“Then each generation played differently, there were different rules, there were different restrictions, there were different surfaces, there were different balls also at times.  I personally don’t feel one should be comparing different generations. But within that generation also I personally believe there should not be any comparison, because every individual whatever he or she does needs to be respected and judge by itself, it doesn’t have to be always judged by comparing someone and I don’t believe in that (comparisons),” Sachin Tendulkar further added.

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