Published 03:13 IST, January 14th 2020
When he plays, I never switch off my TV: Pak legend is all praises for This cricketer
Former cricketer Zaheer Abbas picked his choice between Indian skipper Virat Kohli and his limited over Deputy Rohit Sharma and heaped praises over the latter
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Former Pakistani cricketer Zaheer Abbas picked his choice between Indian skipper Virat Kohli and his limited over Deputy Rohit Sharma and heaped praises over latter. Abbas stated that while Virat Kohli is a great batsman, India's star opener Rohit Sharma's strokeplay is very satisfying to watch.
Abbas furr praised shot creation of Sharma, asserting to be an artist and went onto say that Kohli does t possess same. He added that while Kohli is best, he prefers to watch Rohit because of his unique style.
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"When he is playing, I never switch off my TV. Kohli is right w India's backbone but watching Rohit making his strokes makes me happy. Both se batsmen are great to watch," he said.
Furrmore, batting great lauded India's approach towards cricket and said,
"Cricket has always been popular in India and y have always produced great players. Unlike us, y have stayed away from falling into politics and jealousy and made a system that took along senior players too so that re is gap between m and replacements. You can see that earlier re was Sunil Gavaskar, n came Sachin Tendulkar and w re is Kohli," he said.
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Virat Kohli Exudes Confidence When Asked About Playing D/N Test Matches Away From Home
Virat Kohli on Monday said that Indian team are ready to play Day-Night Test match anywhere in world while addressing media ahead of first ODI against Australia at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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''Yeah look, we have played D/N Test here. We were pretty happy with how it went and it has become an exciting feature of any Test series so we are absolutely open to play a Day-Night Test. We are ready and up for challenge and yeah wher it's Gabba or Perth it doesn't matter to us we do have skillsets as a team w to compete against anyone in world and anywhere in any format of game wher it's white-ball, red-ball or pink-ball, we are ready to play anyone'' said Kohli.
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Im credits: PTI
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03:13 IST, January 14th 2020