Virat Kohli vs Babar Azam: Who is the better batsman between Virat Kohli and Babar Azam? This question is getting interesting day by day. The captain of the Pakistan cricket team is currently running in excellent form. He is consistently scoring runs in all three formats of cricket. In this case, both the comparisons keep happening. Now Pakistan’s fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has given a wonderful answer to this question.
Speaking to ESPN Cricinfo, Shaheen was questioned as to who is better between Kohli and Babar during the rapid-fire round. He gave an interesting answer to this. “I like both,” he said. Shaheen, while answering a similar question about teammates Rizwan and Jos Buttler, said that he chose the name of Pakistan’s wicketkeeper. He called PSL better than IPL.
Shaheen made his international debut in 2018 under the captaincy of Sarfaraz Ahmed and has now become an integral member of the Babar-led Pakistan team in all formats of the game. Meanwhile, Shaheen’s only encounter with Kohli was during the T20 World Cup in Dubai on 24 October 2021. Virat was then the captain of Team India. He hit this fast bowler for a six at the beginning of the innings. He was later dismissed by Shaheen. He took three wickets for 41 runs in the match.
Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were not dismissed by Indian bowlers. Pakistan won the match by 10 wickets. It happened for the first time in the world that Team India had to face defeat from Pakistan. The two teams will once again face off in the T20 World Cup to be played in Australia. This match will be played on 23 October.
After Babar’s 103 in the first ODI in the ongoing ODI series against the West Indies, Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 1,000 ODI runs as captain, surpassing Kohli’s record. Kohli took 17 innings for this as captain, while Babar achieved the feat in just 13 innings.