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Melbourne: Batting legend Ricky Ponting feels India skipper Virat Kohli is the best one-day batsman in the world but it is not yet time to call him a great of the five-day format.
"Is he the best batsman in the world? Yeah, he probably is. I thought he was and he&rsquo;s probably taken it to another level since then," Ponting said.
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"Is it too premature to call him the best ever? You can probably say that right now as far as his one-day cricket is concerned. But let&rsquo;s give him a few years yet in the Test side of things. It&rsquo;s too early yet to be taking about him being one of the greats. I think the great players we always talk about &mdash; the Tendulkars, the Laras, the Kallises &mdash; those guys played 120, 130-200 Test matches. Virat&rsquo;s not even halfway along that path," he said.

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