Sports fans love to compare players from different generations. 

Rather than admiring the greatness of all the top players while we can, for some reason, fans always enjoy pitting one great player against the other.

The same holds true for cricket as well. 

Earlier, the debate used to be between Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar and now, the pendulum has shifted to Virat Kohli.

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Who is a better batter among Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli? Although their international careers overlapped, both the players belonged to different generations, which makes it an extremely difficult question to answer.

In a career spanning nearly a quarter of a century, Tendulkar shattered all kinds of batting records and entered the record books. For many, he is the greatest player to have played the game.

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His achievements are enough to make anyone feel small in front of him but not Kohli. The former India skipper is one of the best players of the modern generation and his stellar records explain why people love comparing him to the player who is regarded as the ‘God Of Cricket’.

No other batter has dominated the world of cricket like Kohli in the last decade. What sets him apart from his counterparts is that he has scored runs all over the globe, across all three formats of the game.

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If there is one player who is expected to overhaul or get anywhere near Tendulkar’s record, it’s Kohli, which makes him an automatic choice for the comparison.

During an interview with Australian journalist Graham Bensinger, on his YouTube channel, the world’s leading-run scorer was posed the same age-old question – Who is a better cricketer, Sachin or Virat?

The ‘Master Blaster’ gave a simple one-line answer which clearly expressed what he thought about this whole comparison thing.

He replied: “How about having both of us in one team?”.

Both the players have an enviable record. But there are several reasons why we shouldn’t compare them. First and foremost, while Tendulkar has retired, Kohli is still playing.

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Secondly, they both played in different eras with different sets of rules and regulations and faced different bowling attacks.

Us fans should at least wait for Kohli’s career to end and only then we can have a clear idea of where he stands against the world’s most prolific run-scorer.

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