Chappell also feels Virat Kohli will surpass legends like Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and AB de Villiers.
Kohli is now the 11th batsman to complete 1000 Test runs in a calendar year overseas and the third Indian to achieve the mark.
He is the fourth Indian to the milestone after Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid but with the best average.
Visit to the house of late Marathi writer-humorist P L Deshpande reminded Sachin Tendulkar of visit to the home of cricket icon Sir Don Bradman.
Smith and Warner are into their eighth month of their one-year bans handed over to them for their involvement in the ball-tampering scandal.
Gavaskar feels Kohli’s ability to reach the situation and adjust his game accordingly is what makes the Indian captain stand apart.
The first great batsman of India, Vijay Merchant played just 10 Tests across 18 long years and finished with a decent 859 runs at 47.72. It was, however, in First-Class cricket that he became Bradmanesque, rising to stratospheric levels only The Don could aspire to.
Australia batting legend Neil Harvey feels he was equally 'guilty' of denying Don the magical landmark.
Kohli’s 24th hundred came in his 123rd Test innings, which is second to the 66 that Bradman needed.
To mark the occasion of Bradman's 110th birth annoversary, Google dedicated a doodle, portraying the former Australia captain playing a cover drive.