Virat runs to Anushka! Romantic celebration after India’s Champions Trophy win
Kohli was seen holding Anushka close and doing a playful thumka. The clip of the couple sharing a bottle of water in between celebrations only added to the frenzy.
Azam said Kohli had already achieved a lot in his career.
SNS | New Delhi | February 15, 2019 4:15 pm
India's captain Virat Kohli. (Photo: AFP)
Pakistan batsman Babar Azam wants people to stop comparing him with Indian skipper Virat Kohli, saying he is nowhere near to the 30-year-old right-handed batsman from Delhi.
“People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli. He is a very big player and I am not even close to him as of now,” said Azam, who will play for Karachi Kings’ is PSL 2019.
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Azam said Kohli had already achieved a lot in his career. “I have just started my career and he has already achieved a lot in his career. I have to reach that stage.”
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Meanwhile, Pakistan cricket team coach Mickey Arthur, who had earlier said Azam would be as good as Virat Kohli, conceded that he jumped the gun a little too soon.
“I think he will be in the top five [batsmen] of the world very soon across all formats. I thought I was a bit quick off the gun when I said two years ago that he would be almost as good as Virat Kohli but it has taken him a while to show that class,” Express Tribune quoted Arthur as saying.
“But if you watched him in the nets couple of years ago, he was a young boy who has developed into a young man, he’s got stronger and fitter and his game gets better and better all the time,” Arthur added.
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Kohli was seen holding Anushka close and doing a playful thumka. The clip of the couple sharing a bottle of water in between celebrations only added to the frenzy.
India’s star batter Shubman Gill retained the top spot in the latest update of the ICC rankings for men’s ODI batters. In addition, Afghanistan’s rising all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai rose to the top of the all-rounder’s rankings after his phenomenal display at the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Star batter Virat Kohli once again displayed why he is rated so highly in white-ball cricket, more so in big-ticket tournaments, and as the master of run-chases, with his gritty half century helping India beat Australia by four wickets in the high-pressure semifinal of the ICC Champions Trophy in Dubai on Tuesday.
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