Shoaib Akhtar praised Kohli
Akhtar is one of the biggest fans of Virat. The former cricketer believes that now the burden of captaincy is off Kohli’s shoulders, he will score runs like a beast
Just a few days back, ace Indian batsman Virat Kohli Ended his century drought in the longest format of the game. he scored 28th Test century at Ahmedabad, took his tally of international centuries to 75. He had already surpassed former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and is now second in the list behind the Master Blaster. Sachin Tendulkar who retired with 100 international centuries.
Though Kohli is 25 tons away from equaling Tendulkar’s long-standing record, experts of the game often say that the former Indian skipper will easily reach that mammoth milestone. Not only a hundred tons but Kohli would go on to score 110 centuries, and that came from none other than former Pakistan skipper Shoaib Akhtar.
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Akhtar is one of the biggest fans of Virat. The former cricketer believes that now that the burden of captaincy is off Kohli’s shoulders, he will score runs like a beast and record a whopping ton by the time he retires.
“Virat Kohli had to come back in form so it is nothing new to me. There was pressure of captaincy on him, after all he is mentally free now. Now he will play with the same focus. I have full faith in him that he will score 110 hundreds and break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 100 international centuries. Now he doesn’t have the weight of captaincy and will score runs like a beast,” Akhtar was quoted as saying by ANI while appreciating Kohli.
Shoaib, who is popularly known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’, further added that Sachin was his favorite batsman during his playing days. He recalled an old incident from a game played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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“I remember once I told my teammate that I will take Sachin’s wicket. At that time we were playing in Kolkata. I got the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar on the very first ball in front of 100,000 spectators. I still remember half the field was empty after Sachin returned.
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