Virat Kohli can break many records of Sachin Tendulkar and has time on his hands: Clive Lloyd

Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd feels star Indian batter Virat Kohli has enough time to break many more Sachin Tendulkar records. However, he refused to compare Kohli and Viv Richards.

Attending an event here on January 11, the West Indies legendary player was asked whether Virat Kohli would be able to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 100 international centuries or not.

LIoyd’s reply was, “I don’t know about the period, but he’s young enough, and I’m sure that the way he’s playing, he can achieve anything he wants to achieve, and it would be something to be quite happy to achieve.”

Clive LIoyd was in the city to attend the graduation ceremony of a private college. The two-time World Cup-winning captain also delved into the comparison between Kohli and his ex-teammate Viv Richards. “They are of different types, So any comparison isn’t fair, said LIoyd.

A legend who had been in the thick of things when Test cricket called the shots, LIoyd still swears by the longest format of the game. For the Guyanese, T20 is all about glitz and glamour.

“Test cricket tests a player’s class. It’s no easy task to weather the advertisers that the five-day format throws. If you want to pick up the threads of Test cricket, go to England and learn the ropes,” said LIoyd.

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The leader who took the West Indies cricket team to exemplary heights during the ’70s and early ’80s is dejected at the downfall of West Indian cricket – failure to qualify for the 2023 ODI World Cup in India is a bitter pill to swallow, but he is hopeful that the team will make a comeback. “Things will change and the cricket board does understand the exigency of the matter,” he quoted.

For LIoyd, a trip to Kolkata in India is all about nostalgia, but the unpleasant memories of the 1996 World Cup semi-final match between India and Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens. The crowd forced match referee LIoyd to stop the match and award it to Sri Lanka much to the chagrin of Indian fans. And it was like a nightmare for the former West Indian skipper.

Any talk about cricket in the City of Joy is incomplete without the mention of the Prince of Calcutta Sourav Ganguly. And LIoyd holds him in the highest esteem. But he couldn’t catch up with Ganguly since the latter is out of town. “I will meet him when I go to England,” he said.