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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MS Dhoni out of Top 5 Players who scored fastest 10000 ODI Runs after Virat’s mind-blowing performance in Second ODI against Windies

Virat Kohli became the latest to join the elite club of batsmen who have achieved 10000 ODI runs. While batting in the 2nd ODI against West Indies at Visakhapatnam out of the five-match ODI series.

The second One Day International ended in a tie but is memorable for Virat Kohli. Before the match started Virat was just 81 runs away to become the fifth Indian batsman and 13th player to join the 10000 runs in ODIclub.

Virat scored 157 runs off 129 balls for India and became the latest to join the elite club of batsmen who have achieved 10000 ODI runs. He also broke the record of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. Virat took 205 innings to reach the landmark. The Master Blaster did it in 259 innings.

India’s wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni while batting in the 2nd ODI against England at Lord’s in the month of July became the fifth fastest to 10000 ODI runs but as Virat moved to No. 1, Position of all others moved a place down.

Following Virat Kohli at No.1 and Sachin Tendulkar at No.2, the third spot in fastest 10000 runs in ODI is hold by Sourav Ganguly, he took 263 innings to score 10000 plus runs in ODI. Australian Cricketer Ricky Ponting holds fourth place by achieving the landmark in 266 innings.

South African batsmen Jacques Kallis stands at No. 5. He took 272 innings to score 10k runs. Then former Indian Captain MS Dhoni stands at position six as he took 273 innings to achieve the target. You can read MS Dhoni Biography to know more about the best Indian Captain.

Following MS Dhoni at No. 6, the list further includes players like West Indies Cricketer Brian Lara, Indian Cricketer Rahul Dravid, Sri Lankan Cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan, and Kumar Sangakkara.

Apart from them, the list features Pakistan Player Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Sri Lankan Player Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene who took 333 innings to achieve the landmark.

Players like Rohit Sharma and Hashim Amla may become the next to join the 10K ODI Runs Club.