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Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Very very good innings, but not as good as Hussey's innings. Hussey's innings was against a much higher pedigree of of bowler and a much much steeper task.
Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Wrong way round. The misconception is yours. Just because a freak GOAT player like Kohli can do it without risks doesn't mean normal batsmen can. You don't model your game around being able to do things that freaks can.
Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Inzy?seriously?
What has he done in WC except one game v NZ
Inzy?seriously?
What has he done in WC except one game v NZ
Faulkner was bowling the same stuff he did against Pakistan. Kohli made it look mediocre.
You have to be shockingly biased to discredit this knock.
Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Lol @ Inzy...the guy who mostly flopped in WC's.
Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Faulkner was impossible with his slow cutters on this pitch.
Its just Kohli's genius that made it look average.
92 WC semi final. Also why r u silent on Miandad ?
t20 got a short history, but I would agree with you. Misbah's and Yuvi's 2007 WC innings along with Hussey's are the best I saw in my life.
Great achievment but is that it? Check his overall WC record. I am not doubting Miandad's ability.
Faulkner was impossible with his slow cutters on this pitch.
Its just Kohli's genius that made it look average.
Aren't we talking about individual innings here?
Inzy?seriously?
What has he done in WC except one game v NZ
The thing is, two of India´s smartest batsmen were out there bossing the game. The keys were, them running the twos, not panicking after during Watson´s last over and staying patience in general, not hitting a shot in anger and driving the ball along the grounds to find the boundaries.
I bowed to the TV screen after they got done. Virat Kohli is the closest thing that I have seen to being perfect. I will openly admit here that I never used to rate his batting in T20(I), always thinking that he can´t go after huge required run-rates without the assistance of a cameo from someone else and mostly bats well after their bowlers have mostly done the job, but today,... not a single thing applies. It was pure genius! A man possessed, a man minus mistakes, a man with a resolve. The greatest T20I innings that I have seen!
That was a good innings for the times no doubt. Kohli has done this countless times.
Cutters and slower balls are not the way to go at the death on ground against any batsmen. Kohli did an amazing job, but some of the bowling decisions at the end was attrocious. Zampa was awesome in his spell and they didn't bowl him out, yet they gave Hazlewood his quota.
Kohli would have probably won it anyway for India. But the approach from Aus was like something you'd never see from them in the longer formats. You can set a field for full length bowling, you can't set a field for shot balls.
Once Kohli had the measure of the slower balls, it was like feeding him long hops. Even the great Kohli and Dhoni wouldn't have been able to score more than 10 per over if you bowled full and set your field accordingly.
Cutters and slower balls are not the way to go at the death on ground against any batsmen. Kohli did an amazing job, but some of the bowling decisions at the end was attrocious. Zampa was awesome in his spell and they didn't bowl him out, yet they gave Hazlewood his quota.
Kohli would have probably won it anyway for India. But the approach from Aus was like something you'd never see from them in the longer formats. You can set a field for full length bowling, you can't set a field for shot balls.
Once Kohli had the measure of the slower balls, it was like feeding him long hops. Even the great Kohli and Dhoni wouldn't have been able to score more than 10 per over if you bowled full and set your field accordingly.
Can't compare Kohli to Javed and Inzy. Cricket back then was played differently in the tempo and style. Them days you had great bowlers to face. These days bowlers are mediocre compare to yesteryear. Kohli could become an all time great and probably will become one. However, he is relatively early in his career and has to do it consistently throughout his career. Then it might be better to compare with players of different eras.
This bloke is the best all round batsman I have seen in my 30 years of watching the game. He is like a video game where you know he will win the game for you. Productivity of this guy makes likes of Sachin and Lara look average.
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In the game, Aussies mixed every type of delivery well.
Kohli simply moved across the crease and started slamming everything for 2s and 4s.
That's what makes this knock a work of genius.
It was a great knock. But as with all sport, you have the ability to determine the outcome of the match and Aus had the ability but they didn't.
Bowl 6 yorkers at any batsmen, including Kohli with your boundary riders in front of square and let's see how often they can hit these 15 and 20 run overs.
Mixing it up is horse shyte to be honest. Mixing it up is for little girls who can't bowl yorkers.
6 yorkers or 6 attempted yorkers which are close to the mark is what you need.
you are welcome to apply as Pakistan's next coach...maybe even captain if ur young aged less than 40...![]()
I must admit, Kohli is catching up to Ahmad Shahzad, and may overtake him if he keeps on performing like this.
He seems much more mature and likable now too. Great innings under pressure, he is on another planet.
On a side down, I think we should get Dravid or Ganguly as our next coach. They know how to bat and will communicate well with the players without the baggage of being an ex Pakistan player.
Maybe even touch UA one day?
Very very good innings, but not as good as Hussey's innings. Hussey's innings was against a much higher pedigree of of bowler and a much much steeper task.
lol...
If you bowl 6 yorkers, NO ONE can do anything.
Kohli does turn some yorkers into playable deliveries by moving across.
If you are gonna compare with 6 yorkers, you may as well set the T20 target to 500.
Cos every ATG would be lulloo against 6 perfect yorkers every over.
Guys cool down.. And rate the innings in perspective. I have seen much better innings than this in my 45 years of watching cricket.
kohli is the best batsman in the world currently and you've got to admit that.
Texaco seems to have a bad day today.)
Calling others teenagers.
Bringing in Inzi and Javed.
Virat played well but can't compare to past greats.. It is our habit to be over excited and call it the best ever. OP probably is a teenager who has never watched Inzy or Javed Miandad bat.
Very few bowlers in the history of the game were able to execute 6 yorkers. But many were able to bowl 6 full deliveries (yorkers, very full ptched deliveries and very low full tosses) and that's what Aus missed this tournament. A certain Starc was missing who would have done that better than most.
kohli is the best batsman in the world currently and you've got to admit that.
This innings is a good reminder of why he was so gungho about fitness.
The thing is, two of India´s smartest batsmen were out there bossing the game. The keys were, them running the twos, not panicking after during Watson´s last over and staying patience in general, not hitting a shot in anger and driving the ball along the grounds to find the boundaries.
As someone who has watched Inzi bat, and respects him very much, that's ridiculous. Inzi was never this good, and while his best innings were at this level, Inzi produced this nowhere near as often.
Inzi had more talent, but that's the difference between a guy who turns 1s into 2s every other ball and could do a triathlon vs a guy who got run out 37 times in ODIs and relied basically on natural gifts. Inzi is more Rohit Sharma than Virat Kohli (and I'm a huge Sharma fan, not a hater).
So what?
When you have supreme bowlers operating at their best, no batsmen can do anything anyways.
Its a pointless exercise.
Even if Starc was there, Kohli could play him off and take on others.
Anyways, it doesn't matter. Aussie bowlers had help from conditions and India were on the backfoot and in that context, this knock was something else. Six hitting was off the table due to big grounds and pitch holding up.
As for your hypotheticals....watch what Kohli does to the yorker, full pitches and very low full tosses of Malinga (who is considered the best in T20s)
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See the deliveries.
Malinga does EXACTLY what you say and result was 3 boundaries.
I still think Hussey's chase against Pakistan was the best I've ever seen. Terrific chasing!
Read the thread title properly.
Say this to sif.
Kohli is head and shoulder above than any batsman of this era or last 2 decades for that matter.
Malinga does EXACTLY what you say and result was 3 boundaries.
Read the thread title properly.
SIF is entitled to his opinion. VK maybe the greatest chaser of all time but IMO that was the greatest chase ever in a T20
That's what you realize when you hear Shaun Tait talking about Mccullum hitting his 155 kph yorkers for six, or videos like the one you linked.
I guess you are the one who needs to read properly...the title says greatest T20 innings...when did inzy and Miandad play T20??
We all respect your age and your love for the past greats, but doesn't mean that we shouldn't call you out for having blinders over your eye...learn to compare apples to apples, Uncle Scrooge. Inzy will fall wayyy short even if we compare him with his compatriots Tendulkar/Dravid or any of the Australian greats of his era. Same with Miandad.
Seriously this was the best innings under pressure on a difficult pitch ever..give me an innings of a similar calibre on a difficult pitch..and lol @ inzi he was not half the batsman kohli is..trust me I've seen both bat at top of their game.
Kohli took Malinga to the cleaners that day but the execution of the yorker from Malinga is not what it generally is. All of those shots were to balls angling in towards the legs. How many of them were aimed towards the base of the middle and off stump?
People like to get carried away. I'm not one of them. I look at what could have been done better and clearly the execution was not good today or back then by Malinga. But Kohli did what no one else right now bar perhaps dE Villiers can do, and take full advantage.
A proper yorker is one that is aimed at the base of the popping crease. If someone is turning it into a half volley or full toss, then it's not a yorker is it?
To you, I would suggest read the entire post instead of title.
A proper yorker is one that is aimed at the base of the popping crease. If someone is turning it into a half volley or full toss, then it's not a yorker is it?
To you, I would suggest read the entire post instead of title.
You are free to think I am getting carried away. But I am not.![]()
You are, like most of the world right now. It was a good innings, but these are becoming more and more and more common these days. He'll hit another innings like this in the next few matches and then again and so will others.
Modern cricket is junk because of this type of contest. Super fast outfields, no reverse swing, bowling restriction rules, flat pitches and short boundaries. So it means innings like this are no longer spectacular. Whereas in the past innings from Sir Viv, Kapil etc were rare and far more difficult to earn.
To some you say read title thread, to some you say read entire post. You first compare Virat Kohli's T20 innings to Inzy and Miandad (most ridiculous comparision ever) and then agree with somebody comparing Kohli to Hussey's innings (much fairer comparison)....must say you are one confused bitter man, who can't appreciate an awesome innings when you see one, just because Kohli is an Indian.
I suggest you do the same. Don't know what inzy and Miandad have to do with t20.
What a cliched reply.
And your comment was very thoughtful.. The moment I saw this knock I knew that was it.. Like a teenage girl talking about chocolates.
Yes I suggest different medicine for different diseases. I replied to other poster and suggested to read the title because his question would be solved by that itself. You on the other hand had a deeper question so I suggest you read op full post where he named all past greats who didn't play t20 ever.
You sir..need to sleep it off. We know this has not been the day you thought it would be..but chill this is not the end of days for pak cricket. Someday you will also get your kohlis and dhonis to make your days in the future![]()
Being born in a country which has truckloads of blind fanbois n sensitive fanatics in excess.