Out-of-favour Pakistan batter Khurram Manzoor recently made a bold claim saying that he has a better conversion rate in List A cricket than Virat Kohli. While he emphasised that he does not want to compare himself with Kohli who has 46 ODI hundreds, he called himself no.1 in the format.
"I am not comparing myself with Virat Kohli. Fact is, in 50-overs cricket, whoever are there in the top-10, I am the world no.1. After me stands Kohli. My conversion rate in List A cricket is better than him. He scores a century every six innings. I score century every 5.68 innings. And based on my average of 53, over the last 10 years, I am ranked fifth in the world in List A cricket. I also have scored 24 centuries in the last 48 innings. Between 2015 and now, whoever has opened for Pakistan, I still remain the leading scorer among them. I am also the top scorer and century-getter in national T20. Yet I get ignored. And nobody has ever given me a solid reason for that," Manzoor said in a conversation with Nadir Ali.
After his baffling statement, Manzoor was widely criticised by cricket fans in Pakistan as well as around the world. After facing immense backlash, the Pakistan cricketer put out a Tweet, clarifying his recent statement.
"Its funny how some media outlets and individuals have taken my interview out of context and twisted my words. Virat Kohli is a generational player and I have always admired him as the best. I talked about this stat in List A Cricket about having best innings per hundred ratio where I am topping the chart and Kohli is on second. There is no comparison between me and him, he has played more games and that too mostly on international level," he tweeted.
Kohli is by far the best contemporary batter and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, white-ball cricketers of all time.
