Steve Waugh, the former Australia captain, who is a two-time ICC Cricket World Cup winner including once in his leadership in 1999, called Virat Kohli as the “greatest ODI player of all-time” while talking
to reporters on Thursday, November 6, in Carrara. The 60-year-old was speaking on the sidelines of the fourth T20I between Australia and India, which the latter won by 48 runs to take 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Notably, Virat Kohli was in Australia in October of this year, where he competed as an Indian player for the last time in all likelihood the three-match ODI series, which the visitors lost by 2-1 margin. He ended up scoring an unbeaten 74 off 81 in the third ODI, to help India earn a consolation victory in the series after losing the first two matches in which he was dismissed without troubling the scorers.
Virat Kohli is probably the greatest one-day player of all-time: Steve Waugh
With a whopping 14,255 runs in 305 ODI matches to his name, including a record-setting 51 hundreds, Virat Kohli has etched his name in history books among the greatest of not only the 50-over format but also all formats combined. In his recent interview to the press, Steve Waugh was all praises of him and his compatriot Rohit Sharma by saying, as per Times of India, “Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are two all-time great players. Virat Kohli is probably the greatest one-day player of all-time. You want to see them play everywhere… but they can’t play every match.”
The Australian great went on to hail Virat Kohli a bit further and said, “Someone like Virat Kohli, that’s a once-in-a-generation sort of player. If you get a chance, you want to see him play.” While speaking to RevSportz’s correspondent Subhayan Chakraborty in Carrara, Steve Waugh also alluded to the importance of international cricketers taking part in domestic cricket from time-to-time while suggesting the same for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
The stalwarts of Indian cricket are expected to play for India next in the three-match ODI series at home against South Africa from November 30 onwards.
