In recent times, former Zimbabwe cricketer, Pommie Mbangwa has had numerous chats with veteran cricketers on Instagram Live and his latest guest was former Australia fast bowler, Brett Lee. One question that is a mainstay of Mbangwa’s chat is when he asks his guests to pick between two of the current stalwarts of the game — Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.

This time was no different as Mbangwa directly asked the million-dollar question to Brett Lee. Lee, to his credit, decided against sitting on the fence, and while he showered praises on both batting stars, he said “at the moment”, he would pick Smith over Kohli.

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Describing his thoughts, Lee said, “Look, it is so hard to pick because there are a lot of qualities in both that I enjoy. I try and look at from the bowling point of view, are there any flaws that I would try and exploit and there are very little. You think about Kohli, technically sound, hits through the V. He used to knick off a number of years ago, but tightened that up and doesn’t knick off as much now and is a lot more disciplined. Superfit, a great leader of his side. Kohli is definitely right up there.”

Steve Smith led the Australian team until he was suspended for 12 months over a brazen attempt to alter the ball with sandpaper under his watch during a Test in Cape Town in 2018.

After serving the ban, Smith came back strongly and left his mark as Australia retained the Ashes 2019. He was the leading scorer in the Ashes in England with a whopping 774 runs in four matches.

Talking about Smith, Brett said, “Steve Smith is a different batsman as well, very flamboyant, he is so fidgety, ‘just relax that’s what you think to him’ but that’s what makes him the player he is. At the moment, I would go with Steven Smith because of what he has actually been through. You ask me this tomorrow and I might go Kohli.”

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He further added, “They are so hard to split mate, like splitting hairs and they are two great players. He (Smith) could have been as good as (Don) Bradman and still maybe that. He’s had some time out of the game but he was talked about him doing as well as Bradman in terms of his numbers.”