Former South Africa cricketer and one who is credited with making fielding sexy in international cricket, Jonty Rhodes recently riled up a storm when he went onto pick Virat Kohli as the better batsman to watch than Steve Smith in an interview to an Indian newspaper.

“I enjoy watching Virat Kohli. Steve Smith, with that action and technique, makes the ugliest hundreds I have ever seen but the man just keeps scoring runs. Someone who likes to watch cricket would want to say ‘Wow! What an amazing shot’ as opposed to ‘Oh! How on earth can he hit that?’ So Virat Kohli right now,” Rhodes had said to the New Indian Express

Rhodes gives his verdict on who is a better batsman to watch- Kohli or Smith?

Well, the Twitterati didn’t take well the criticism of the modern-day Bradman of Tests and decided to school Rhodes on Steve Smith. “You may not like Steve Smith but don’t demean his batting by saying he makes ‘ugly’ hundreds!! He is the best in a very long time. Don’t understand what is ugly about his batting,” a Twitter user wrote.

Rhodes, being Rhodes, decided to rile up the user further by saying that Smith makes ‘ugly double hundreds’. “Sorry, u are correct, should mean he makes ugly double hundreds. My batting was once described by a commentator as “someone trying to catch confetti with a bucket in swirling mist”!” he wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “Is he conventional? No! Is he effective? 100% Man is a run-scoring machine,” he further said.

Whether you like him or not, Steve Smith smashed 774 runs in seven innings at the ongoing Ashes series, at an average of 110.57 in the series, with three tons and three fifties. He also surpassed Virat Kohli to cement top position in ICC Test batting rankings.