Babar Azam and Virat Kohli are considered to be the best modern-era cricket batsmen because of their fierce on-field rivalry.
Babar Azam and Virat Kohli are considered to be the best modern-era cricket batsmen because of their fierce on-field rivalry.
In addition to holding the third position in both the Test and T20I formats, Babar is currently the batter with the highest ranking in the 50-over format.
On the other hand, Virat Kohli is a little lower down the pecking order because of a rare down period in his long and successful cricket career.
During Kohli’s string of low scores for a significant portion of 2022, a friendly camaraderie was evident between the two.
“This will also pass. It didn’t take long for the message “Stay strong” that Babar had tweeted along with a picture of him and Kohli to become a meme fest.
The Pakistan skipper opened up about the widely shared tweet in a recent interview with ICC Digital Insider Zainab Abbas. Babar claimed that Kohli, whom he wants to keep competing with on the field, was in a positive mood when he sent the tweet.
Babar stated, “As a sportsperson, anyone can go through such a time.” At the time, I considered the possibility that tweeting might assist someone and instill confidence.
You see, as a player, you try to support every sportsman when things are tough. “During difficult times, you learn what you think of other people.
At the time, I believed that if I had done that, maybe something good would have come out of it. something that may be advantageous.
At that point, Kohli was working on the England tour and hadn’t scored a century in any format in more than 1,000 days. At that point, Kohli scored his final century in 2019 against Bangladesh.
However, he took a break immediately following the England tour before regaining his mojo at the Asia Cup 2023, where he scored a hundred against Afghanistan—his only T20I century thus far.
Since then, Kohli has scored three hundred in one-day internationals and a match-winning 82* in the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 match in Melbourne against Pakistan, which is led by Babar.