Virat Kohli is in his prime, will begin scoring tons of quickly: Muhammad Yousuf
2 min read Pakistan batting nice Muhammad Yousuf believes that Indian captain Virat Kohli is in his prime and can quickly begin getting tons of once more in all codecs.
Kohli, thought of the most effective present batsmen on this planet, has not scored 100 in any format since 2019.
“Kohli is only 32 and this is the age at which top batsmen hit prime and it is only a matter of time before he starts getting hundreds again,” Yousuf stated in an interview.
“To achieve what he has already achieved is formidable and to me, scoring 70 Test and One-day International hundreds (by Kohli) is extreme,” stated Yousuf, who has performed 90 Tests and 288 ODIs.
Yousuf, who nonetheless holds the world report of scoring most Test runs in a calendar yr when he made 1788 runs in 2005/06 season, wouldn’t like evaluating Kohli with legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
“He (Kohli) has performed it and jitney reward karo isko kum hai (irrespective of how a lot we reward him, it’s much less). But at similar time I don’t assume there’s a comparability between him and Sachin (Tendulkar).
“Tendulkar was a different class altogether. He scored 100 international hundreds and keep in mind the era he played in and the bowlers he played against,” stated the previous Pakistan captain.
Yousuf felt that India nonetheless continued to provide technically higher batsmen as in comparison with Pakistan.
“Their young batters have always had role models to follow from one era to another. That is why even today, they (India) are producing better batsmen. I was lucky that when I started playing I had players like Inzamam ul Haq and Saeed Anwar to look up to and was also coached by a great like Javed Miandad.”
Yousuf stated that stakeholders in Pakistan cricket want to take a seat down and severely take into consideration the long run as a result of there was a dire have to get younger gamers to additionally concentrate on different codecs aside from T20.
“Or else, we will face more problems in batting in future,” Yousuf, who’s now a batting coach on the PCB’s excessive efficiency centre, stated.
“T20 is fun cricket and I see it as a blessing in disguise as it had immensely improved the financial status of our players. But at same time, I think you can even be successful in this format by sticking to the basics and intelligent cricket with less percentage of risky shots.”
He famous that batsmen like Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith had been all excellent examples of this method.
“Smith is a bit of an exception in his style of play given the way he plays, but then his approach has been very successful in all formats especially in Test cricket.”
