Virat Kohli on Twitter shares a photo with Caribbean legend Sir Vivian Richards, who has repeatedly praised the Indian skipper. A two-time World Cup winner and mainstay of the match, Viv Richards posed for Kohli. Kohli captioned the photo, "With the biggest boss".
Richards had previously stated that Kohli's aggressive approach was what he could tell himself as a player. "Kohli is aggressive. I'm a big fan of him. I like the right drummer and the right aggression. And I like the fact that someone can play like that i think Virat Kohli will return it to Australia this time. Virat is special and I love this game. " "I also played the same game. Can you imagine Viv and Virat playing on the same team?
The former batsman scored 8540 points in 121 Test matches. In the one-day International, he played 187 games and amassed 6,721 points. Richards was part of the World Cup-winning team in 1975 and 1979. It was 138 steps in 1979 final. He was also part of the 1983 World Cup team, second after losing to India in the final.
Kohli, on the other hand, has played 77 Tests and 236 ODIs so far. The execution machine and the fighter master aggregated 6613 executions in the tests to 53.76, while its 11286 quickfire executions were at 59.40 in the OIDs. He also achieved the rare feat of being the fastest batsman to score 10,000 points in ODI. With 41 tons of ODI, he currently occupies second place in the list of elites, only 11 tons less than Sachin Tendulkar. In the Cricket Test, he is already 25 centuries old, Richards having made 24 cents in his entire career.
