AB de Villiers, the South African batsman has
caused a serious threat to the current World record held by the Great Brian
Lara who scored an Individual 400 not out in a single innings of an International
Cricket Test match.
A record that personifies exceptional talent along with
destructive aggression, rock solid will and strong determination to overcome
such a mammoth score appears to be on AB de Villiers’s radar for the
forthcoming test series.
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| Brian Lara, West Indies |
Since AB de Villiers landed on Indian soil for
the on-going Cricket series between Indian and South Africa, he has appeared to
achieve phenomenal heights and prove to be a step ahead of all the current crop
of master batsmen around the world. One of the batting ability is to adapt to
all three formats, which only a few cricketers posses these days, AB de
Villiers has proved to be the best amongst all.
The Test series which would begin on 5th
of this month shall allow loads of runs at the beginning of India’s cricketing
season with relatively flatter pitches. The ‘spinning web’ to which batsmen
across the whole world have fallen prey to, would not be as fatal as it is in
the later part of the cricketing season.
Hence, AB de Villiers with all his
batting proficiency, the arsenal of strokes he posses and with the strike rate
which he gathers his runs at, is destined for greatness and one such record he would
be proud to achieve is that one held by Brain Lara.
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| AB de Villiers, South Africa |
Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, AB de Villiers’s
home ground of Royal Challengers Bangalore and the venue for 2nd
Test Match would possibly the prospect where he shall target his record at. The
flat batting pitch at Bangalore has historically proved to be batsman’s
paradise. And if, AB de Villiers scales this peak he would be crowned to be the
second best batsman who has ever played this game till date, leaving behind
likes of Tendulkar, Lara, Ponting and many more.
All the best AB de Villiers!
-The ardent Indian Cricket fan
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