Delhi: It is not easy to choose India's greatest cricketer. When there are names of greats like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Kapil Dev, then it becomes very difficult to choose one player. Meanwhile, former Indian batsman and Chennai Super Kings player Abhinav Mukund completed this difficult task in his own style.

Before the 2026 Asian Games, Mukund organized a competition between many legendary players on ESPNcricinfo's YouTube channel. During this period, the biggest surprise was about Virat Kohli, because he was left behind by Jasprit Bumrah in the quarter-finals.

Bumrah defeated Virat Kohli

In the quarter-finals, Sachin Tendulkar overtook Ravichandran Ashwin, while Jasprit Bumrah defeated Virat Kohli. Apart from this, Rahul Dravid left behind Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni left Sunil Gavaskar behind and made it to the semi-finals.

Sachin and Bumrah reached the final

Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni were face to face in the first semi-final. Mukund chose Sachin here. In the second semi-final, Jasprit Bumrah left Rahul Dravid behind and made it to the final. In this way the final match took place between Sachin Tendulkar and Jasprit Bumrah.

Sachin became Mukund's first choice

In the final, Abhinav Mukund chose Sachin Tendulkar over Jasprit Bumrah and called him India's greatest male cricketer.

Let us tell you that Sachin is India's highest run-scorer batsman. He has 34,357 runs in his name in all three formats. At the same time, Bumrah has taken 506 wickets in 238 matches and has played an important role in India's big T20I successes in recent years.

In this way, Sachin Tendulkar won Mukund's knockout list, while Virat Kohli's exit before the top-4 was the most surprising decision.