Imran Khan feels Virat Kohli has the potential to emerge as all-time great

Showering praise on India’s star batsman Virat Kohli, legendary Pakistan cricketer and former captain Imran Khan said he (Kohli) had the potential to emerge as an all-time great. Imran, who had led Pakistan to World Cup glory in 1992, said Kohli could demolish all records and also lauded MS Dhoni’s captaincy. Imran, however, said the success or failure of the Indian team in the ongoing World T20 should not be the yardstick to judge Dhoni’s captaincy.

“He (Kohli) has a lot of ability. The team depends on him. He is a star. He is going to emerge as an all-time great in the future. I see that much potential in him,” Pakistan’s World Cup winning captain and one of the greatest all-rounders of the game Imran said here.

“It is very difficult to spot his weakness. He plays on both sides of the wicket. He plays both on the front and the back foot. He has a good temperament, technique,” Khan told Bengali news channel ABP Ananda.

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“It is very difficult to measure a captain in T20. So to hold Dhoni responsible in case of failure is not right. Test match and T20 are completely different ball games. The more you lessen the number of overs, the greater is the chance factor,” Imran said.

Imran is not a cricketing legend but also a politician, philanthropist and former chancellor of the University of Bradford. He is the founder of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and the Namal College, Mianwali. Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century and, after retiring, entered politics. In April 1996, he founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) political party and became its chairman.