Pakistan opening batsman Fakhar Zaman is currently impressing with his consistent batting form. Recently, he claimed that he has learnt a lot of watching Indian skipper Virat Kohli’s batting.

While Kohli is known as the consistent performer with the bat, Zaman has also maintained his consistency batting performances in the short spell of international cricket. As Kohli is running in a dangerous batting form in the ongoing English tour, who has just regained the top spot in the Test batting ranking, Zaman reveals that he follows Kohli’s hard work.

On Thursday, the 28-year-old Pakistan opener told Sky Sports, “There is no doubt that Virat Kohli is a world-class player who sets a fine example for all to follow with his hard work and his batting. I for one really enjoy watching Virat Kohli bat and I feel that I learn a lot by watching this master batsman at work.”

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Despite having no earlier experiences as he made his ODI debut in 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, Zaman played a crucial role in Pakistan batting that helped the team to win their maiden ICC Champions Trophy. Zaman was the leading run-scorer for Pakistan in that tournament as he scored 252 runs in 4 innings with the average of 63.00 including one century and two half-centuries. In that tournament, Zaman scored a half-century (57) in the semi-final against the hosts England, while he also scored a match-winning century (114) against India in the final.

Recently, he becomes the first Pakistan batsman to score a double-century in ODI cricket when he scored 210* against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on July 20.

Making an international cricket debut in March 2017, Zaman has played 18 ODIs and 22 T20Is where he has scored 1,065 runs (average 76.07) and 646 runs (average 30.76) respectively. The left-handed opening batsman completed his 1,000 ODI runs in 18th ODI innings and becomes the fastest player (according to the number of innings) to score 1,000 ODI runs.