England pacer Stuart Broad joins debate, says Root and Smith are better batsmen than Kohli. Image Source: XtraTime[/caption]Internet Desk: England pacer Stuart Broad is the newest inductee in the debate of who is the best batsman in the world. Broad, one of England’s leading all-time wicket takers, thinks neither Indian skipper Virat Kohli nor Aussie captain Steve Smith, England middle order batsman Joe Root is the best batsman among all.
Appreciating both Kohli and Smith’s talents, Root described his fellow teammate Joe Root as the best above them. "I’d say Joe Root, but just because I’ve played a huge amount of cricket with him. I know that he makes runs in a lot of conditions, pretty much all conditions, and he has scored runs at really big times for us as an England team. I think when you’ve played closely with someone for that long a period of time, you see a lot of their strengths. He, in my mind, is built up to be the best player I’ve seen because I see him every day," Broad told cricket.com.au.
Not only does Broad thinks that Root is better than Virat, He even believes Smith is far better than Kohli. "The likes of Steven Smith and Joe Root, they have this consistency of every time they go out to bat they’re just desperate to score big runs and that makes them the top of the tree — that makes them the best players in the world."
Perhaps the England pacer thinks that Kohli’s vulnerability outside the off-stump can be exploited by his opponents. "One thing about Virat, the only dismissal you feel in the game with is a nick. He’s so strong off the pads and he doesn’t really get bowled a huge amount. In the conditions, we played there, his hunger for runs was just spectacular."
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