When the Indian cricket team begins its Test series against Bangladesh on September 19, all eyes will be on Virat Kohli. Kohli has retired from T20Is which means fans will only have the chance to see 35-year old star in two forms of the game – Tests and ODIs. Comparisons have often been drawn between him and Sachin Tendulkar, but Kohli has always maintained that Tendulkar is above comparison. Kohli has 80 international tons and is second to Tendulkar in terms of centuries (100)
Its just a matter of time before Kohli can leapfrog Tendulkar’s record for a world record in international cricket during the bangladesh test series. Going into this series, Virat Kohli needs 58 runs to complete 27000 runs in international cricket. Tendulkar reached 27000 runs fastest in international cricket by scoring his runs in just 623 innings which included 226 Tests innings,396 ODI innings and T20I innings once.Kohli however has played 591 innings across all formats scoring26942 so far which means that if he scores 58 more runs within his next eight innings then he would become the first ever player reach 27000 runs within less than six hundred innings throughout its entire existence of147 years for International Cricket.
On top of that, only two other hitherto players apart from Tendulkar have over 27000 runs in their entire international career namely Ricky Ponting from Australia and Kumar Sangakkara from Sri Lanka.
There’s a possibility that the Afro-Asia Cup might start up again. If the tournament really happens, it could mean that Virat Kohli and Babar Azam might play together in the middle, or Shaheen Afridi could bowl alongside Jasprit Bumrah.
A report in Forbes says that the idea of bringing back the Afro-Asia Cup “is being considered again.”
“I’m really upset that it (Afro-Asia Cup) didn’t happen,” Damodar said to me. “There wasn’t enough support from the ACA, but it’s being looked at again. I think it was mainly because people didn’t understand or believe in the idea,” former African Cricket Association chair Sumod Damodar told Forbes. “Our members are now sorry about it. Africa needed to push for it more.”
