{"id":573,"date":"2020-06-25T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=17199"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T07:23:25","slug":"virat-kohli-bats-exactly-like-viv-richards-gavaskar-explains-why-india-captain-is-considered-no-1-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/virat-kohli-bats-exactly-like-viv-richards-gavaskar-explains-why-india-captain-is-considered-no-1-player\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Virat Kohli bats exactly like Viv Richards\u2019: Gavaskar explains why India captain is considered \u2018No. 1 player\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the comparisons between Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar were never ending, a new debate seems to have picked up. This time the India captain is being pitted against the great West Indies cricketer Viv Richards, by one of India\u2019s all-time batting great, Sunil Gavaskar.<\/p>\n<p>The former India captain not only is convinced that Kohli is the world\u2019s No. 1 batsman but believes the reason behind Kohli burning up the charts is due to the similarities he has with Sir Viv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very difficult to keep Viv Richards quiet when he was at the crease. Similarly, if you look at Virat Kohli\u2019s batting today, in the same ball and same line, he will use his top hand and score a boundary towards the extra cover region and will use the bottom hand and score a boundary towards the mid-on and mid-wicket region,\u201d Gavaskar said on Star Sports\u2019 show \u2018Winning the Cup \u2013 1983\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DidYouKnow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DidYouKnow<\/a>: Dennis Lillee had a front-row view of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> winning the 1983 World Cup, straight from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WI?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WI<\/a> dressing room!<\/p>\n<p>Catch more anecdotes in our upcoming special, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinningTheCup83?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WinningTheCup83<\/a>:<br \/>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f : June 25, 6:30 PM<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa: Star Sports 1 Hindi\/1HD Hindi\/3\/First<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/83WatchAlongOnStar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#83WatchAlongOnStar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z4LhWztqT6\">pic.twitter.com\/Z4LhWztqT6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarSportsIndia\/status\/1274326157802958848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why Virat Kohli is considered as the No. 1 player because he bats exactly like Viv Richards. Earlier, Gundappa Vishwanath, VVS Laxman used to bat like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gavaskar is not the first to see shades of Richards in Kohli. Former Australia captain Ian Chappell had last month stated how there\u2019s so much alike in the way Kohli and Richards bat, especially when it comes to the kind of shots they play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he didn\u2019t want those to creep in his batting in the longer form of the game. The best short-form player in the time I played was Viv Richards, and he just played normal cricket shots but he placed the ball so well he was able to score at a very fast rate. And Kohli\u2019s the same. He plays traditional cricket shots, and he plays them really well,\u201d Chappell had said on the RK Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Gavaskar not only is convinced that Kohli is the world\u2019s No. 1 batsman but believes the reason behind Kohli burning up the charts is due to the similarities he has with Sir Viv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":23712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}