Former India National Abhinav Mukund was named the best Indian men's cricketer of all time across the formats. Virat Kohli was in the race to claim the crown, but the former cricketer denied Kohli the achievement.
Abhinav Mukund faced a knockout-format video for a short Cricinfo video on their YouTube channel. The video was actually very tough as he had to choose players from different eras in 1v1 situations. But there was one certain active Indian cricketer who went into the final stage of the video. Interestingly, the active player was not Kohli.
The video starts with a Round of 16 segment with eight different sets of players. The comparison started with two Indian cricket legends, Sachin Tendulkar and Vijay Hazare. Abhinav Mukund chose Sachin as he had not seen Vijay Hazare's batting. "I've only played the Vijay Hazare Trophy. I've not seen Vijay Hazare bat. But obviously, I've seen the records and still go with Sachin Tendulkar," Mukund said.
For the second set of the game, the comparison was between two modern-day batting legends, Kohli and Rohit Sharma. As the selection was based on the players' performance across the formats, Mukund picked Virat Kohli. "Tough one. But across formats, I'm going with Virat Kohli," Abhinav Mukund mentioned.
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So, as Mukund did not choose Rohit Sharma in the Round of 16 set of players, Rohit was automatically ruled out of India's all-time best men's cricket across formats debate, while Kohli moved into the next round.
Ruling out Virat Kohli was probably one of the main points in the video. If Mukund turned down Virat Kohli from the debate, then who were those cricketers who moved into the final round of the conversation to find out India's best men's cricketer of all time?
Jasprit Bumrah reaches the final stage of the video
After the Round of 16, there were the quarter-finals with the winners of the previous stage of the video. In this set of 8 eight players, Kohli had to compete with the Indian ace fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. It was a very tough call for Abhinav Mukund, but as per the rules of the video, he had picked only one between Kohli and Bumrah, and it was Bumrah who moved to the next stage of the conversation, and Kohli crashed out of the debate.
"Oh, wow. You guys light this up like this, didn't you? Both of them. One's won an ODI World Cup. One's won two T20 World Cups. Jasprit Bumrah," Abhinav Mukund stated in his response, with amazement all over his face.
For the final, the 1v1 scenario was between the legendary Sachin Tendulkar and the pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah. It was also a challenging comparison, but probably not as much as it was when Virat Kohli was up against Jasprit Bumrah. According to Mukund, Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest men's indian cricketer of all time across the formats.
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