This IPL season might be dubbed as 'Kohli's IPL' in years to come. He is unarguably the best exponent of white-ball batsmanship going around. However, for someone like me who places a great emphasis on longest form of Cricket i.e. Test Cricket, until and unless he proves himself in seeming and swinging conditions of England and New Zealand (I believe in him and thus shall wish him luck), I shall still rank him behind Kane Williamson and Joe Root. Just to make sure I'm impartial to this debate, I put my favorite cricketer of all time i.e. Sourav Ganguly behind Sachin, Sehwag, Laxman and Dravid when it comes to rank him in FAB FIVE of Indian Batsmanship because he simply wasn't as good as them in test cricket. Many call him a very good test cricketer and maintaining an average of 40 in test cricket from the very beginning till the very end signifies their reasoning but still, he fell short of 45/50 that makes a batsman statistical behemoth in purest form of Cricket. Ganguly, also like Kohli, was simply phenomenal in first 6-8 years of ODI batsmanship and even WISDEN ranked him as the 6th Greatest Limited Overs Batsmen of all time but even he acknowledged in dying years of his career that test cricket for him always stood tall and that's where he couldn't do full justice to his talent, notwithstanding his batting position in Test Cricket which was no.6. Kohli was spooked real bad by Jimmy Anderson and company in the last English tour of India in 2013 and I know for a fact that failure still haunts him and thus drives him to work harder and harder. Probably he does know now what we expect of him and what he could really accomplish!!!
This IPL season might be dubbed as 'Kohli's IPL' in years to come. He is unarguably the best exponent of white-ball batsmanship going around. However, for someone like me who places a great emphasis on longest form of Cricket i.e. Test Cricket, until and unless he proves himself in seeming and swinging conditions of England and New Zealand (I believe in him and thus shall wish him luck), I shall still rank him behind Kane Williamson and Joe Root. Just to make sure I'm impartial to this debate, I put my favorite cricketer of all time i.e. Sourav Ganguly behind Sachin, Sehwag, Laxman and Dravid when it comes to rank him in FAB FIVE of Indian Batsmanship because he simply wasn't as good as them in test cricket. Many call him a very good test cricketer and maintaining an average of 40 in test cricket from the very beginning till the very end signifies their reasoning but still, he fell short of 45/50 that makes a batsman statistical behemoth in purest form of Cricket. Ganguly, also like Kohli, was simply phenomenal in first 6-8 years of ODI batsmanship and even WISDEN ranked him as the 6th Greatest Limited Overs Batsmen of all time but even he acknowledged in dying years of his career that test cricket for him always stood tall and that's where he couldn't do full justice to his talent, notwithstanding his batting position in Test Cricket which was no.6. Kohli was spooked real bad by Jimmy Anderson and company in the last English tour of India in 2013 and I know for a fact that failure still haunts him and thus drives him to work harder and harder. Probably he does know now what we expect of him and what he could really accomplish!!!
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