Ponting deal breaker on Kohli-Tendulkar comparison on Master Blaster's 50th birthday
Australian cricket legend Ricky Ponting has also shared his views on the never-ending debate involving Sachin and Virat. Tendulkar is called the god of cricket, whereas Kohli earns the tag of being a "modern-era great" because of his batting charts across all the formats of the game. Even Kohli himself believes that no one should be compared with Sachin.
Speaking to Sanjana Ganesan on The ICC Review, Ponting admitted that Tendulkar was the best player of his generation. Ponting said that, "I've said forever that Sachin's technically the best batter that I've ever seen and played with or against." Whatever plan we came up with as a bowling group, he found a way to combat it, whether it was in India or Australia.
It's hard to rank and judge players, as everyone is different and plays the game differently. "But certainly through the generation that I played, he was technically the best player that I saw."
He also believed that Tendulkar’s record of playing 200 Test matches for Team India was nothing but an "unbelievable feat." While talking about the comparison of the two icons of the game, he said that the comparison can only be done when Kohli finishes his international career.
Ponting further added that, "Regardless of how many runs you make or how many hundreds you make, to be physically good enough and have a skillset set good enough to stand up and play 200 Test matches is amazing." Virat's got all that ahead of him just yet. He's an unbelievably good player; there's no doubt about that. He's got over 70 international hundreds now. Sachin made a 100, didn't he? "Let's wait until Virat's career's over, and then I think it'll be a much fairer comparison."
Sachin Tendulkar had represented team India in six world cups and was a part of team India winning the World Cup in 2011.
