Australia women’s team skipper Alyssa Healy has said that if she purely bases the ‘Fab Four’ of men’s cricket on numbers, she will put ace India batter Virat Kohli on fourth. The last four years have seen Kohli’s stakes fall by miles, especially from the level that he had reached before that, especially from 2012 to 2019, when he was almost unbeatable in terms of number of runs scored.
Since 2014, Kohli, ace England batter Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith have made and broken all existing batting records.
Healy, while speaking on a podcast, was asked to rank the Fab 4, with the topmost player being the greatest according to her. Surprisingly, the Aussie placed Kohli at the last.
“They’re all very great. But if I’m purely basing it on number, I’m going to put Kohli as fourth. But I actually rate him as No. 1 in everything else. But if you’re basing it on number, Kohli is going to sit fourth for me. I’m looking at it analytically,” Healy said while speaking on the LiSTNR Sport podcast.
“I think about how much cricket he plays and that’s where I look at his stats. And they are remarkable based on the sheer amount of cricket he plays and the pressure he is under. But if I look at it analytically, he is going to sit fourth,” Healy added.
The Aussie skipper ranked not her compatriot Smith, but Williamson as the greatest among the Fab 4. She said that her choice was the Kiwi batter because he is an one man army in the New Zealand team, unlike Kohli who has quite a few big names as support.
“Williamson has carried the whole New Zealand team, whereas for Virat, he is the greatest player in the world, let’s be real. But with him, it’s like someone else is always there. Rohit Sharma can score hundreds. KL Rahul can score a 100,” Healy said.
