Virat Kohli or Steven Smith - over all better batsman as of now?

[King Tendulkar]

Kohli averages 50 in all 3 formats . Amazing 

 

ps smith and kohli average getting closer 

[King Tendulkar]

Cant play under swinging conditions so out under lights 

 

mediocre record for smith in England summed up today 

 

and you jokers compare him to Sachin . Joke . Take out his home stats and is nothing 

 

say it again don’t make top 5 aussie bats even 

 

 

 

 

[mancalledsting]

8 hours ago, khiladi786 said:

Smith makes test run in every country including England, Virat has big test in SOA and England he know about that. You should start the thread after Southafrica series.WI and Srilanka are weakest bowling force in world of cricket,regard less where the test matches stage 

 

not to tell anyone : but Virat hit 6  International century vs SL in 2017 

how did Pakistan do vs Sri Lanka at home this year in tests?

[Jimmy Cliff]

Smith's failure ensures that he won't surpass Bradman's peak rating after this Test. Good chance that Kohli will end up with a 900+ rating after his double hundred in the 1st innings.

[mishra]

After what I saw today, I hope that was just a occasional mental choke in Smithy. But you could easily see, there is a massive weakness if you ball him like the way Anderson and Woakes did. Pitch it on leg and middle and then let it swing away from him.

 

HE was playing on backfoot instead of going on front foot.

[ravishingravi]

I think we should not even mentioning any batsman in same breadth as Smith for test cricket. Undoubtedly the very best. 

[Rasgulla]

Smith is miles ahead.. No comparision in this format..

[nevada]

Smith makes runs with boring regularity after fall of early wickets. No other batsman even comes close to that kind of consistency. 

[Gollum]

Time to lock this thread, no more energy needs to be expended by humanity because this question is settled. Sun rises in the east, water is wet, Smith is miles better than Kohli. 

[King Tendulkar]

Sorry guys these runs from smith don’t count . Flattest track ever ( hence marsh scores ton) plus at home . Don’t count . Sorry smith fans .

 

needs to deliver overseas in Asia and England otherwise behind kohli 

[King Tendulkar]

1 hour ago, ravishingravi said:

I think we should not even mentioning any batsman in same breadth as Smith for test cricket. Undoubtedly the very best. 

We know home bully . But not all purpose we bat . His technique exposed in Asia and England 

[Nonbeliever]

4 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Sorry guys these runs from smith don’t count . Flattest track ever ( hence marsh scores ton) plus at home . Don’t count . Sorry smith fans .

 

needs to deliver overseas in Asia and England otherwise behind kohli 

Yes only Kings run counts.  He has scored 7 centuries against Lanka and Bangladesh in 2017.

Edited December 16, 2017 by Nonbeliever

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, King Tendulkar said:

We know home bully . But not all purpose we bat . His technique exposed in Asia and England 

Got a double 100 and a 100 in England, got more runs in the 2015 series than VK will probably get over there in his lifetime. Scored 3 100s earlier this year when entire Indian team combined could muster only 2, funny part is Kohli went MIA there when the team needed him most. Smith scored 100 in Pune, Kohli got 46 runs in 6 innings 

Watch how Kohli can't even make eye contact with his master 

 

[Vilander]

On 02/12/2017 at 12:59 PM, rtmohanlal said:

I  was speaking in terms of bowlers with <25 avg:. For instance take 90s. Mcgrath,Warne,Ambrose,Walsh,Bishop,Donald, Pollock,Akram,Waqar & Murali. And there were several  slightly lower level bowlers too.Today's bowlers pales in comparison to them

What were the averages of batsmen at that time. If there were lesser 50+ batsmen then we can say they bowled to poorer batsmen.

[Vilander]

2 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Got a double 100 and a 100 in England, got more runs in the 2015 series than VK will probably get over there in his lifetime. Scored 3 100s earlier this year when entire Indian team combined could muster only 2, funny part is Kohli went MIA there when the team needed him most. Smith scored 100 in Pune, Kohli got 46 runs in 6 innings 

Watch how Kohli can't even make eye contact with his master 

 

Any one twist facts like this and put a pick based on a momentary event as a strawman

[rkt.india]

19 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Time to lock this thread, no more energy needs to be expended by humanity because this question is settled. Sun rises in the east, water is wet, Smith is miles better than Kohli. 

just because he scored a double at home? Kohli has scored 5 in last 18 months, both away and at home.

[rkt.india]

Kohli averages 66 in last 34 tests with 14 hundreds since Aus tour December 2014.

[rkt.india]

6 minutes ago, Vilander said:

What were the averages of batsmen at that time. If there were lesser 50+ batsmen then we can say they bowled to poorer batsmen.

true

[Gollum]

There is only one player I know amongst the younger lot who can match Smith now that it is confirmed VK, Root, KW are a few leagues below him. It is our very own KL Rahul......kid's a genius who showed his class against Australia this year. But Kohli being the jealous, unscrupulous, treacherous, insecure brat that he is.....is trying his level best to end Rahul's career lest there emerge a bigger Indian star than him. Rahul is a genius who is being unfairly treated by some vested interests and that is the only reason there will be no competitor to Smith in the next 10 years, allow Rahul to bloom and we will get Sachin 2.0 in our midst, that is how good he is. Steyn in his peak year saw Rahul in the nets and boldly predicted that the teenager would score 10000+ runs and become a great.......... F U Kohli, F U Shastribot.

[jalebi_bhai]

17 minutes ago, Vilander said:

What were the averages of batsmen at that time. If there were lesser 50+ batsmen then we can say they bowled to poorer batsmen.

Great question. Would like to see the '90s ishh besht era wonly' brigade pull out the numbers regarding this.