Sachin Tendulkar vs Virat Kohli: The Battle of Era(s)
In cricket, Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli are the two
modern-day icons in the game of cricket, and the way the present Indian skipper
building his innings, it’s become very much relevant to analyze him with his
Idol Sachin Tendulkar in the one-day international cricket.
Both the connoisseurs of the Indian cricket team has reached
to the 10000 runs milestones in a style, the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar scored
astonishing 139 runs against Australia to reach the landmark and on the other
hand, Virat Kohli scored thumping 157 runs against the West Indies side to
reach the landmark, they are the only two players who reached to the milestones
with a ton to their name.
Virat Kohli has achieved to reach the milestones of 10000
runs with fewer innings than Sachin Tendulkar, but though it is a good time to
compare the current state of the former Indian great Sachin Tendulkar with the
present Iconic batsman Virat Kohli.
If we look at the statistics of both the batsman’s we can
decipher that to reach the milestone King Kohli took 205 innings in compare to
Sachin Tendulkar’s 259 innings, also in terms of the average also the superstar
leading the race against his idol Sachin Tendulkar, only his strike rate is
relatively lower than the Master Blaster.
Based on the statistics we can easily say that who wins the
comparison but things got bit unfair with the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar,
in the present day scenario the One-day International matches are far more
scoring in respective when Sachin Tendulkar used to play for the team, so
actually to compare, the striker rates, average and all other things we need to
take all the numbers into account and also need to measure the current scenario
with the previous scenario.
Sachin Tendulkar in his time to reach the 10000 runs
landmark he played 259 games and at that time the average strike rate of the
other batsman was 71.51 and when it comes to in the present day scenario the
average strike rate of the batsman is 85.99.
Also, the average of the other batsman in the time of Sachin
Tendulkar was around27.90 and now in the modern day it is 31.73, with these
stats it is evident that Sachin Tendulkar exceeds the average striker rate with
a higher margin than Virat Kohli, and in his time Sachin Tendulkar has also won
more Man of the Match awards to his name in those innings and also another
thing which we need to take into consideration is the factor of the teammates
during the time frame.
The Master Blaster played his first 66 innings for the
Indian national team as a middle-order batsman and in that period he did not
have the force which he got while opening the batting line up, excluding those
matches, the superstar in his rest all matches to reach the 10000 milestones
has got far better striker rate than Virat Kohli and also his innings per
century improves that his disciple Virat Kohli.
Century Comparisons:
Since Sachin Tendulkar moved to the top order for batting,
the master blaster has racked up hundred in every 6.86 innings while his other
peers manage to scored on every 247 innings, which stands that Sachin Tendulkar
is three times better than his other teammates in his period and though in the
modern-day cricket the Indian skipper Virat Kohli also got plenty hundreds to
his name but scoring a hundred in these days it bit easier than the first half
of the Sachin Tendulkar’s ear, and Sachin Tendulkar was at a higher level to
compared to his teammates in that time than Virat Kohli to his present Indian
players.
The Chase Master:
As We Know in the present scenario there is no other player
better than chasing down a total than Virat Kohli and his numbers are
outstanding, Sachin Tendulkar in his career has scored 5490 runs in his 124
innings with the strike rate of 55.45, and Virat Kohli has already got 5388
runs to his name in just 86 innings with the strike rate of 96.21.
In the 1994-2001
Sachin Tendulkar’s stats in chasing were also pretty good, at that time frame
he got the average of 50.28 with the strike rate of 94.65, in compare to Virat
Kohli’s average of 68.54 with the striker rate of94.51, applying the same
yardstick for the overall number, it is transparent that Sachin Tendulkar’s
striker rate is better than Virat Kohli, but Virat Kohli’s greatest ability to
score big runs and stay unbeaten, in his career till now Virat Kohli was
unbeaten in 28 innings which helps him to have a higher average.
Virat Kohli has got the ability to play long innings with a
decent strike rate, which increases his success percentage and this ability of
his helps him to score then fastest 10000 runs in the modern-day cricket in ODI.
Conclusion:
Sachin Tendulkar is the god of cricket with his monumental
figures and for his scintillating performances he has put for the Men in Blues
and on Virat Kohli is the King in the present Scenario
with his outrageous batting ability and with his temperament, and both of them
are best in their way for the Indian cricket fans and with the batting figures
of Virat Kohli, we can say that Virat Kohli is the ideal successor of Sachin
Tendulkar in the Indian national team and if anyone who can break the records
of the Master Blaster than its only Virat Kohli who has got the potential to do
so.
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