‘I haven’t seen a better odi player than kohli’: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has praised him after Virat Kohli’s century against Pakistan in Champions Trophy-2025. Ponting said that he has not seen any player better than Virat Kohli in ODI cricket. At the same time, he hoped that this star batsman will be successful in breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most runs in ODIs.
Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 100 in the Champions Trophy match against Pakistan on Sunday, which is the 51st century of his ODI career. India won this match by 6 wickets with this brilliant innings of Kohli.
Ponting said in the ICC review, ‘I don’t think I have seen a better player than Virat Kohli in the 50 -over format. Now that he (in terms of scoring the most runs) has overtaken me and now only two batsmen are ahead of him, I am sure that he is sure that he should remember himself as the batsman who scored the most runs in this format. Will give the best chance.
Kohli also completed 14000 runs in ODI cricket during his century. He is the third batsman in the world to achieve this feat after Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara.
𝗞𝗢𝗛𝗟𝗜 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘!@imvkohli takes #Teamindia Over the line, bringing his first-evening in the #ChampionstrophyHIS 51st in Odis, and 82nd Across Formats.
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– Star Sports (@StarsportsIndia) February 23, 2025
Kohli (14085 runs) is still 4341 runs behind Tendulkar (18426) and at the age of 36 he has a very limited time to reach this point, but Ponting does not think it is an impossible job for Kohli.
Ponting said, ‘Surely he is physically fit as before and works extraordinaryly on this aspect of his game. It is surprising when you think about it. Virat has been doing well continuously for the last several years, but despite this, 4000 runs are still behind Tendulkar.
He said, ‘This not only shows how good batsmen Sachin was, but it also shows how long he kept playing this game for a long time. But you can never consider a player like Virat to be paid. If they still have hunger to score runs, then I will never say that he cannot break Tendulkar’s record. ,
Ricky Ponting, who scored the highest runs in both Test and ODI, has scored more than 13,000 runs in both formats. Under his captaincy, he made Australia twice the champion of the ODI World Cup (2003 and 2007).