Former Pakistan cricketer Ramiz Raja has recently revealed that their former World Cup-winning captain and present Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has hugely impressed on the Indian skipper Virat Kohli as he compared Kohli to the Indian legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
Under Kohli’s captaincy, the Indian cricket team recently becomes the first ever Asian team to win a Test series in Australia. After India won that four-match Test series by 2-1, the Pakistan PM congratulated the neighbouring country by tweeting, “Congratulations to Virat Kohli and the Indian cricket team for the first ever win by a subcontinent team in a test series in Australia”
Congratulations to Virat Kohli and the Indian cricket team for the first ever win by a subcontinent team in a test series in Australia
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) January 8, 2019
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When Ramiz Raja was asked about that tweet, he revealed that how Imran Khan still followed the game passionately. Raja revealed that Imran Khan was comparing Kohli to Tendulkar during his oath-taking ceremony as Pakistan PM in August 2018.
Raja told Mumbai Mirror, “I can relate this to something I had personal experience of. We were invited over for his oath-taking ceremony. Obviously, it was a kind of cricket meeting with 10-12 of us. One of the first few things he said was comparing Virat Kohli to Sachin Tendulkar. That was quite interesting.
“Obviously, it meant he follows the game, follows the players, and he has held Kohli in high regard for his approach to the game and how he has featured so strongly for India. He is a batsman who gets the runs when India need them the most. That’s what has impressed Imran about Kohli.”
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Talking more about that tweet, Raja claimed that Imran Khan wrote that as a sportsman rather than not being a typical politician.
Raja said, “The other important point is that he is a sportsman at heart. He thinks like a common man, he is not a typical politician. He is seen in Pakistan more as a reformist and in that tweet, a sportsman was speaking.”
