Virat Kohli vs Joe Root

[Lala]

Joe Root is much better player in test compare to Kohli the FTB.

[Adi_91]

Kohli is miles ahead of Root in LOIs and I think even the English commies in the video agreed (I know how biased they are. )

 

In tests, Root is ahead because he has had huge success at home, whereas Kohli even at home has not had anything remarkable yet. But, it is still very tight.

[velu]

12 minutes ago, Lala said:

Joe Root is much better player in test compare to Kohli the FTB.

and then you woke up next to your lovely goat  

[Bigg Brother]

Joe Root is much better player in test compare to Kohli the FTB.

Good..Pakistanis appreciating the one who crushed them badly!!!

[tweaker]

Root performance can be judged after their series in India.I think he will not be able to cross 100 runs in full series

[Lala]

3 minutes ago, Bigg Brother said:

Good..Pakistanis appreciating the one who crushed them badly!!!

That is called talent dude. Im neutral here yaar.

[mishra]

41 minutes ago, Lala said:

That is called talent dude. Im neutral Pakistani here yaar.

Fixed

[Adi_91]

9 minutes ago, mishra said:

Fixed

Is that too far when our beloved Padosis are around?

[mishra]

TBH, Test match is not individual game. Unlike limited overs where couple of players can work as match winner, tests matches are complete team effort where performance of team impacts individual performance.  I will not read too much into Kohli's performance as whole Indian team collectively performed very badly. the average got greatly skewed because of that.

 

I am yet to see a test series where Root individually lifted morale and performance of his team. If you suffer from poor memory all you need to do analyze impact of day 1 batting from Kohli which  brought stability and confidence back to Indian batsmen against Windies.

For past few years Kohli has allready been doing so against big guns like Australia, South Africa and so on. Reserving my judgement till next series against India.

 

 

At 25, Root is now right age of his career to do so i.e. opponents will make plan A, plan B and plan C to get him out. I still have a feeling that it will be Cook and not Root who will be a pain in that series

[Laaloo]

3 hours ago, velu said:

Root is averaging 101 vs our bowlers in tests

 

That was under Dhoni's captaincy. Our bowlers were doing andolan against Dhoni.

[mishra]

2 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Here is one more intersting stats when we talk about overseas and compare two of them, this might add more to discussion. 

 

In australia

Root- 27.43

Kohli- 62

 

In NZ

Root- 17.60

Kohli- 71.33

 

In Sa

Root-55.14

Kohli- 68

 

So Kohli is far superior on Bouncy pitches as of now.........

Agree! Numbers dont lie

[FischerTal]

kohli has to prove himself on swinging pitches. if he does that, hell be comfortably ahead of root. 

[bowl_out]

Concur with others...

Root for Tests. Kohli for LOIs

[Rightarmfast]

As with all English players and all England teams of past and present, English are home pitch bullies. Bring root to India and see his average go down!

[Rightarmfast]

18 hours ago, Bigg Brother said:

Who is better?

 

Love Wasim Akram! Every SC player should side with their own.

[Ankit_sharma03]

2 hours ago, Rightarmfast said:

Love Wasim Akram! Every SC player should side with their own.

I think akram is coming from a point of view of a bowler, i think warne would even answer same as they would consider whom would they find more difficult to bowl to . 

I just wanna add smart this piece of discussion was by pommies, they didnt show the no of 100 home n away n when they did point about joe root bad series down under they said very subtly. One of them said every time kohli has come to england he has been a sitting duck, well he has played test one time only what do you mean by every time and he has a 100 in eng in odi so its not that he cant play in England. Also they didnt really show the stats of Root in SA, Nz, Aus thats not a very proper discussion. Had it been kohli or any other batsman with such good record at home they would have been quick to label him home track bully. 

[Stuge]

What's the point of even comparing ? Kohli is master of Limited overs cricket.. Whereas ,root is for tests.

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[CoverDrive]

I am just happy we are having this discussion. Very impressed with Root and Kohli is current favorite player. Here is hoping this threads keeps growing

[mishra]

5 hours ago, Rightarmfast said:

Love Wasim Akram! Every SC player should side with their own.

Its the view of a legend vs a decent player. Legends rarely take sides that easy.

[Bilal]

Sometimes there is no need to make comparison to prove lame things.

Both will finish as greats along with Williamson and Smith. These 4 will be the future greats.