T20 World Cup 2022: Greg Chappell places high praise on Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli [Source: Associated Press]

After Virat Kohli's mesmerising knock against Pakistan that had the whole world awestruck, Australia legend Greg Chappell lavished praise on the former skipper. 

After almost two years of struggling in the game, Chappell rated Kohli as the 'most complete Indian batsman'. 

What Chappell said 

"None of the greats of bygone eras could have dismembered of an opponent so brutally without compromising the niceties of the art of batting than Kohli did last Sunday night."

"Kohli is the most complete Indian batsman of my time. Only the greatest of champions has the courage and the intelligence to transport their imagination beyond the mortal plane. Kohli has that. Perhaps only Tiger Pataudi has come close to transcending a similar stratosphere." 

"Kohli played an innings that was as close to a 'song by god' as has ever been played in T20 cricket. Like a cat playing with a new skein of wool, Kohli teased then expertly picked apart an excellent Pakistan bowling attack until it lay unravelled, spent and exposed on the green carpet of the MCG."

Virat's innings legitimised cricket: Greg Chappell

"Ironically, it was also the innings that legitimised T20 cricket as, dare I say it, an art form, more than any that I have seen in the past 15 years. Nobody can dismiss T20 cricket as simply entertainment ever again," 

"I can think of many of the best hitters in the modern game who could have pulled off a similar victory, and probably have, but none has ever done it with pure batting skills in the manner that Kohli did against Pakistan," 

After decimating Pakistan, Kohli also came through for the team in the second match against Netherlands, scoring a wonderful unbeaten 62 off of 44 deliveries. 

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