Virat Kohli or Sachin Tendulkar? Imran Khan once told Indian High Commissioner who was better | Cricket News

Former Pakan Prime Miner Imran Khan had once rated Virat Kohli higher than Sachin Tendulkar, recalls Ajay Bisaria, who served in Pakan as India’s High Commissioner from 2017 to August 2019. Bisaria was later expelled the Pakan government in response to the abrogation of Art 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“During one of the Iftar parties he had hosted, Imran Khan told me that he thought Virat Kohli was clearly the best cricketer in the world and he would rate him much higher than Tendulkar,” Bisaria said at the Idea Exchange.
“Because, he said, Kohli turned losing matches into winning ones, and that is not what often happened in the case of Tendulkar.
Former Indian High Commissioner to Pakan Ajay Bisaria at the Noida office of The Indian Express. (Express photo Renuka Puri)
“Even Dhoni has a huge following in Pakan.”
Earlier, this month Imran Khan, was sentenced to years in prison in cases pertaining to leaking state secrets and corruption. Khan was removed from power in a no-confidence vote in parliament in April 2022. However, the 71-year-old former cricket star-turned-politician alleged that his country’s powerful military generals conspired with the United States to unseat him.

Ex-envoy Bisaria also explained why Virat Kohli has a huge appeal across Pakan, as was the case with Imran Khan in India earlier.
“Because cricket is a subcontinental religion and everything else falls before that,” he said.
Because cricket is a subcontinental religion and everything else falls before that.Although cricket is a religion in the sub-continent, but the sports diplomacy has failed get two countries closer.
“Sports diplomacy has been a very important tool of the people-to-people diplomacy,” said Bisaria.
“Bilateral diplomacy has often ridden on the back of cricket diplomacy. But we should recognise its limits.
“However, when the relationship gets better, trade and cricket are low-hanging fruits.”