With no cricket going on, all the cricketers have a lot of free time on their hands right now. Many cricketers have also been proactive on their social media in the past few weeks due to the lockdown. Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar expressed his opinion on the popular debate comparing the 2 Indian star batsman, Sachin Tendulkar, and Virat Kohli. The former Pakistani Fast bowler feels it is it’s unfair to draw comparisons between the duo.

Virat Kohli has been a Starwalt for the game of cricket over the years. He has broken many records across his cricketing years that were created by the Master Blaster. Kohli is also expected to break fellow countryman Sachin Tendulkar‘s world record of 100 international centuries across formats.

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At 31 years old, Kohli has already named a whooping 70 centries in international cricket. The current India skipper racked up 43 hundred in One Day Internationals. While the other 27 have come in the longest format of the game. He is also the only batsman in world cricket to 50 plus average in all three formats.

Talking about the comparisons, Akhtar said that both the players played in a different era.  Terming Tendulkar to have played in the ‘toughest era of cricket’, Shoaib Akhtar also added how  Sachin would have notched over 1.30 lakh runs if he played now.

“Tendulkar batted in the toughest era of cricket. If he had to get the chance now, he may hit more than 1.30 lakh runs. So, it’s not good to make a comparison between Sachin and Kohli,” Shoaib Akhtar said.

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Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar has taken a dig at the rules of the modern game and shared that he and fellow partner Sourav Ganguly would have easily scored more than 400= runs together if the batted in the current era.