India, Feb. 27 -- The raging debate over who is the better batter between Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar will likely go on forever, but the truth is that comparing the two is like stacking apples against oranges. Tendulkar played in an era when handling reverse swing with a single ball was not something every batter could master. Similarly, the way Kohli has dominated chases for India, showing remarkable consistency in ODIs, reflects a level of class rarely seen before. At the same time, there are several similarities between the two. Tendulkar was often a one-man army for India in the 1990s, and Kohli too has carried that responsibility for long phases; even now, with his absence from certain formats, India sometimes wonders what might...