Virat Kohli or Sachin Tendulkar? Imran Khan once told Indian High Commissioner who was better
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had once rated Virat Kohli higher than Sachin Tendulkar, recalls Ajay Bisaria, who served in Pakistan as India’s High Commissioner from 2017 to August 2019. Bisaria was later expelled by the Pakistan government in response to the abrogation of Art 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“During one of the Iftar parties he had hosted, Imran Khan told me that he thought Virat Kohli was clearly the best cricketer in the world and he would rate him much higher than Tendulkar,” Bisaria said at the Idea Exchange.
“Because, he said, Kohli turned losing matches into winning ones, and that is not what often happened in the case of Tendulkar.
Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria at the Noida office of The Indian Express. (Express photo by Renuka...