KARACHI: Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has asserted that Pakistan’s national team captain Babar Azam cannot break Indian great Sachin Tendulkar’s 100-century record.
“Former Indian skipper Virat Kohli is the only batter who can break Tendulkar’s record”, the world’s fastest bowler said while speaking to a private news channel.
The Rawalpindi express predicted that Virat Kohli would smash more than 100 centuries in his carrier, adding that if he were in place of Kohli, he would have never married before retiring.
Kohli has 43 centuries and 64 half-centuries in 259 ODI matches to his name, while Babar has smashed 14 centuries and 17 half-centuries in 83 ODI matches.
In ODI cricket, Virat is just six centuries away from equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time record of 49 tons. He has an average of over 50 in all three formats of the game currently.
The last time Virat scored an international century was in November 2019, in the day and night Test vs Bangladesh in Kolkata. Since November 2019, Kohli has played 46 international innings, scoring a total of 1703 runs, at a cumulative average of 42.57 and a strike rate of over 86. He has scored 345 Test, 649 ODI and 709 T20I runs in that period since November 2019,
Talking about the Pakistan Super League (PSL), Akhtar said he would turn it into an even bigger brand than the Indian Premier League (IPL) if he is appointed the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
