The bowler I most fear is Wasim Akram: Virat Kohli

The Indian run machine and one of the best batsman of the generation Virat Kohli revealed that he would have feared batting against the former Pakistani left-arm pacer, Wasim Akram, who is known as “the King of Swing”.

“The bowler I most fear, or I would have feared if I had played [against him] would be Wasim Akram; fast and skillful,” Kohli answered a quick-fire question in an interview with CNN.

Wasim Akram had previously termed Virat Kohli as the best batsman in the world.

“Kohli is the best batsman in the world. There comes a time in a batsman’s life, where you learn how to score runs,” Akram told Sports Today few days back. “He plays with authority in all three formats. It’s difficult to bowl at him. I would have found it very difficult to bowl at him.”

When asked about the difference while going out to bat against Pakistan, Kohli said: “Now, no. But initially, that used to be a massive change in my mindset. When I came to play for the Indian team, in my head, I saw those games as a fan. I didn’t know what goes on in the changing room, how those players interact with each other, whether they talk or whether they don’t want to talk, whether they are aggressive on the field; I didn’t know anything.”

Answering a question of what it is like in the dressing rooms of Pakistan and India, Kohli revealed: “It is absolutely normal. You see the India and Pakistan players talk to each other, you can just keep laughing.”

“Somewhere you feel that yes they understand what we are saying and we understand what they are saying. So, there is that mutual respect and there is mutual admiration between the two teams,” Kohli concluded.

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