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You are the most talented cricketer I have played with – Virat Kohli on AB de Villiers

17 Oct, 2024
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You are the most talented cricketer I have played with – Virat Kohli on AB de Villiers
17 Oct, 2024 By Editor

RCB legend AB de Villiers was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, and his very good friend Virat Kohli, penned a heartfelt note to the hard-hitting sensation. With a wide range of strokeplay and his incredible reach, AB de Villiers rewrote the laws of cricketing physics.

With an average over 50 in ODIs and Tests and a strike rate north of 135 in T20Is, ABD was a reckoning force in his playing days. Apart from his batting numbers, AB de Villiers was also a brilliant fielder and a gun wicket-keeper, showing his razor-sharp reflexes.

Kohli's note to de Villiers, which the former posted on social media read, “You are thoroughly deserving of your place – after all, the Hall of Fame is a representation of your impact on the game, and yours has been truly unique. People have always spoken about your ability, and rightly so. You are the most talented cricketer I have played with, the absolute number one."

The letter further stated about the lessons that Virat Kohli learned from ABD while batting together, adding, “You had a crazy amount of belief that you could execute whatever you wanted to on a cricket field, and you normally did. That is why you ended up being so special.”

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