Virat Kohli or Steve Smith- Who is the Best Batsman in the World?

Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne who is one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket has an opinion that Virat Kohli is undoubtedly the number one batsman in the world. He told that Kohli has an edge over the other batsmen.

He rated Kohli as best batsman across all the three formats of the game. But he feels that Steve Smith is ahead when it comes to the longest format of the game. He also told that in his time, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar were the two best batsmen.

Shane Warne started his cricketing career in 1990 and ended in 2013. He further added that in this 23 years span, he saw Jaques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Graham Gooch, Kevin Pietersen, Kumar Sangakkara, and Rahul Dravid and they all were fantastic players.

He then emphasized on the two- Tendulkar and Lara who were much better than the others. He said he is not disrespecting the other great players but these two are class. So Shane Warne considers Virat Kohli as the best batsman in the world.

While former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting who is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time believes that India captain Virat Kohli is currently the best batsman in the world only because Steve Smith is not there.

Steve Smith is serving a year-long ban for his role in ball tampering at a Cape Town Test. Along with Smith, David Warner is also serving a ban due to ball tampering.

Having already sealed the T20 series against West Indies, now Team India have turned the focus on their upcoming tour of Australia. The series will start from November 21.

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Team India’s Preparation for World Cup 2019

With the beginning of October, IND vs WI cricket test series had started in the Rajkot. The 18-year-old debutant Prithvi Shaw was declared as man of the match. The Indian team is in full form and is expected to be same in World Cup 2019.

The upcoming cricket world cup tournament will be held in England in the year 2019. Cricket World Cup is organized by International Cricket Council (ICC) once every four years.

Cricket World Cup 2019 Schedule is out and the matches are scheduled to be held from 30 May 2019 to 15 July 2019. Cricket fans all over the world are eagerly waiting for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Indian Cricket team is all ready for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 which is just 8 months away. This World Cup will have only 10 teams as compared to previous World Cup that had 12 teams.

India will face its first match of the World Cup 2019 against South Africa on 5th June 2019 at Hampshire Bowl, Southampton. India will take on Pakistan on 16 June 2019 at Old Trafford, Manchester.

India, the 2-time world cup winners in 1983 and 2011 and the runner-up of ICC Cricket World Cup 2003, after losing from the five-time champions; Australia. India is in full form to win the World Cup this time.

Under the leadership of the Best batsman in the world, Virat Kohli, Indian fans are hoping that team India will lift the trophy for the third time. Indian player who may not get a place in the 2019 World cup squad may include Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, and Ravichandran Ashwin.

Recently former captain MS Dhoni joined the elite team of 10K ODI Runs. Before Mahi, Kumar Sangakkara was the only wicketkeeper-batsman to feature in the list of 10000 ODI runs.

Next one in line is our current captain Virat Kohli who is about to score 10000 Runs in ODI. He could be the fifth Indian Batsmen after Mahi who can achieve the target in just a few upcoming matches.

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