Who is the world’s greatest batsman, Smith or Kohli? West Indies pacer Shamar Joseph takes a surprising name

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|27-07-2024

Virat Kohli: Indian cricket team's star batsman Virat Kohli is often compared to batsmen from around the world. Virat Kohli has played brilliant innings in all three formats for Team India. Virat Kohli is often compared with England's Joe Root, New Zealand's Kane Williamson and Australia's Steve Smith. Different people have different opinions on this.

Shamar Joseph told who is greater between Virat Kohli and Steve Smith

Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

There is often a comparison between former Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli and Steve Smith as to who is a better batsman. This comparison between the two players is about their consistency, technique and temperament and match winning innings. Recently, during an interview with West Indies cricket team's fast bowler Shamar Joseph, he was asked a question about modern day cricket great Virat Kohli and Australian legend Steve Smith as to who is better among the two players. In response to which Shamar Joseph said that he has named Steve Smith.

Who is Shamar Joseph?

Shamar Joseph is a fast bowler of the West Indies cricket team and he came into the limelight when he performed brilliantly in the Test series being played between Australia and West Indies. Shamar Joseph took a total of 8 wickets in the match against Australia at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. In the Test match, when Australia needed 225 runs to win in the fourth innings, Shamar Joseph took a total of seven wickets in the fourth innings and stopped Australia at 216 runs and won by 8 runs. Since then, he has been in the news a lot.

Virat Kohli is miles ahead of Steve Smith

If Team India's star batsman is compared with Steve Smith in all three formats, then Virat Kohli is miles ahead of him and in this case no batsman in the world can come close to him. However, if his performance in all three formats for the last few years is compared, then it can only be compared with Team India captain Rohit Sharma and Australia's left-handed opener David Warner.

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