I will go and share a bottle of champagne with Virat Kohli if he breaks my record, says Sachin Tendulkar

There has been one debate that has been going on in the last couple of years and that is if Virat Kohli is on par with Sachin Tendulkar? The current Indian skipper though has rubbished the comparison talk stating “it is unfair on the great man.” However, comparisons were bound to make more noise with Virat Kohli closing in on Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most ODI hundreds (49). Kohli has already scored 35 tons in the ODI format and is just 15 away from the batting maestro’s landmark. Many have tipped Kohli to overtake Tendulkar in the next few years and Tendulkar, who was at the Mumbai launch of Boria Majumdar's book Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians, has revealed that he will personally go to Kohli and share a bottle of champagne if the 29-year-old manages to break his record. 

“I don't have too many people who are very close to me. That is just the way life has gone on for so many years. Because naturally when someone has stuck by me in tough times, I value that person a lot. I continue to do that. The impact he has had in my life growing up... I understand the importance of it. If someone can inspire you like that and you end up becoming someone and you feel like there is no greater pleasure than that. So that (handing his father's threads over to Tendulkar) was just a gesture of thank you to the guy who has inspired me to do what I am doing. For me, the human connect is paramount,” Kohli had said at the launch in Kolkata on April 7.