{"id":78598,"date":"2020-01-21T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=78598"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:50:26","slug":"virat-kohli-or-steve-smith-michael-vaughan-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/virat-kohli-or-steve-smith-michael-vaughan-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli or Steve Smith? Former England captain Michael Vaughan answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the debate continues on who is the best batsman of the modern era, former England skipper Michael Vaughan feels Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli is the finest all-format batsman.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a tweet that said former Australia skipper Steve Smith is the finest all format batsman, Vaughan tweeted: &#8220;Disagree &#8230; Virat is the best all round &#8230; !!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Disagree &#8230; Virat is the best all round &#8230; !! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJPt7v8ewS\">https:\/\/t.co\/zJPt7v8ewS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelVaughan\/status\/1219160856413360128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The comparisons between the two star batsmen were renewed after Smith finished as the highest run-getter in the recently concluded ODI series against India.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has a terrific record in Test cricket and has far superior numbers to claim his place as the best Test batsman of the modern era. Smith averages 62.84 in 131 Test innings while Virat Kohli averages 54.98 in 141 Test innings.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to limited-overs cricket, Virat Kohli&#8217;s numbers are much greater than that of Steve Smith. Virat Kohli averages 59.86 and 52.73 in ODIs and T20Is respectively and is the<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/icc-odi-rankings-virat-kohli-rohit-sharma-lead-batting-charts\/\"> number one ranked ODI batsman<\/a>. Steve Smith on the other hand averages 42.97 in 50-overs cricket and 27.48 in 20-over cricket, which is impressive but much below his Indian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will continue among the cricket pundits as to who is the greatest batsmen of this era, but with overall international numbers in Virat Kohli&#8217;s favour, Michael Vaughan&#8217;s pick seems to be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the debate continues on who is the best batsman of the modern era, former England skipper Michael Vaughan feels Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli is finest all-format batsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[86729,87890,3511,2024],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Smith_Kohli.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78598"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=78598"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=78598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->