England’s young batsman Harry Brook has named Indian batting champion Virat Kohli the best ODI cricketer of all time because of the way he approaches and builds his innings. He also praised the running between the wickets. The 35-year-old performed brilliantly in his 2023 ODI World Cup, finishing as the top run-scorer of the tournament.
Virat Kohli was an excellent batsman in all three formats of the game and his dominance in ODI cricket was on a completely different level. He was India’s top run scorer in his ICC competitions and contributed to the team’s success in the 50-over format of the match, setting an example for aspiring players.
According to social media and reports in The Telegraph, Harry Brook hailed Virat Kohli as the best player of all time in the ODI format of the game and praised his running between the wickets . How to build up your innings until you make a big splash in the final over.
“Kohli is now the greatest ODI cricketer of all time. The way he runs between the wickets is simply the best in the world. Watching him go through innings, you realize how much he played. Some of the innings were ridiculous,” Harry Brook said.
The 35-year-old took over the responsibility after Tendulkar retired from the game and carried on the legacy of the Master Blaster. Virat Kohli has been the Men in Blue’s best batsman in red-ball and white-ball cricket for many years. The Indian batting champion helped India win his 2011 ODI World Cup and his 2013 Champions trophy.
India’s batting champion has been unstoppable ever since he returned to form in the 2022 Asia Cup. In BGT 2023, the former Indian captain achieved his first Test century in nearly three years and five months and then shone in the IPL and delivered an exceptional performance in his recently concluded ODI World Cup 2023.
Virat Kohli also became the highest scoring batsman in a single World Cup, overtaking Sachin Tendulkar against New Zealand.
This record has been held for 20 years by Sachin Tendulkar who scored 673 runs in 11 World Cup matches. He became the first Indian batsman to score over 700 runs. In his 10 innings he scored 711 runs and averaged 101.57. Of those he was 5, he was 50 and he was 300.
