Mumbai, May 14 -- Indian cricket icon Sunil Gavaskar hailed Virat Kohli's record-breaking century for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at Raipur, saying that while the talk about the next generation of hitters taking over is taking place, the veteran has shown that the "old generation is still the best".

After two successive ducks, Virat enthralled the Raipur crowd with a majestic display during a run-chase of 193 runs, not only hitting fours and sixes, but accumulating runs risk-free through singles and doubles, particularly the latter. This century made him the first-ever Indian to score 10 T20 hundreds and reach the 14,000 run mark in T20s.

Speaking on Star Sports 'Cricket Live', JioStar expert Gavaskar said that the star batter "kn...