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[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@119off61 Best odi batsmen of post AB era in SA cricket

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@AP_RM7 @dweplea @RedRiverCries For his enormous high standards, even 2015 wc campaign is underachievement . It should have been a 100 vs ind at Melbourne, should have been not out finish vs pak and a match winning 100 in semis

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@sas_3343 Him and dumminy should have batted a bit faster tho. When u r set, you must atleast have better intent.

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@Aintn0waySwag @kingxbaldwin_ @44off23 Out Of all that batch of 2015, him being the one not playing the 2019 wc and not any of Amla, JP, Steyn, is top 5 most embarassing events of this sport since 1877

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@kingxbaldwin_ @44off23 Correct, bec faf would have ran him out somewhere in the middle 😕

[Sashank @sas_3343]

Eoin Morgan 57(22)* vs Sa 3rd T20I Centurion

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@legal_ally_ As an AbD fan i agree

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@WoakesHive @_caspianah 2015 wc broke him and 2017 ct buried him. Plus his vision for the 2019 wc in terms of managing himself, received unexpectedly vile reactions from someone he expected would support him. So he detached himself from SA cricket completely

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@WoakesHive @_caspianah Eng 2017 test series is a massive lost opportunity. Aus 2016 at least he was severely unfit

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@AP_RM7 For this level of stature, khud ko woh waisa carry kyu nahi karta ye.

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@Aintn0waySwag There are better ways to claim Rohit's greatness, but this is surely dumb and shallow one

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Yes, those photos you’ve seen are real.

More than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot.

Today, their achievements on the pitch inspire millions. Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world.

The goal? That every child survives, thrives, and fulfils their potential.

We are proud to have them on our team.

Credit: Joan Monfort

[Mod @CFCMods]

This is cold.

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

(1/2) No trophy or any title can take anything away from what you’ve done in this sport and for sports fans around the world. No title can explain the impact you’ve had on people and what I and so many around the world feel when we watch you play. That’s a gift from god.

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

He climbed to world number one 14 different times, averaged 118 in deciders, and struck at over a run a ball in every century he ever made. And we still do not talk about his value in odi format enough.

Sometimes I sincerely feel the cricket fraternity never honoured AB de Villiers properly in ODIs. Because this was his supreme format, and he is arguably the finest ever in it. Inarguably top two to four of all time. And no, I am not joking. Pick any metric you like and he is extraordinary in it. If your mind is still not persuaded, let the numbers do it.

Start with the raw record: 9,577 runs at 53.5, striking at 101.1. Alongside Kohli, that is about as iconic as an ODI statistical line gets. But the raw line actually undersells him, because he spent half his career in the one new ball era, from 2004 to 2011, when scoring was genuinely harder. Even there he averaged around 45 at a strike rate of 90. And from his 2009 prime onwards, with one ball, it climbs to 63 at 99.2. Remember too that he was never really an opener, he was pushed up as a stopgap for close to 40 innings early on. Strip that out and his non-opening record in the one-ball era reads 3,478 runs at 52.69, striking at 92. Sensational stuff.

Then the two-ball era arrives, and he becomes something else entirely. From 2012 to 2018 he scored 5,054 runs at an average of 64 and a strike rate of 113. Among everyone in that era, only Kohli lives anywhere near those numbers. Not Rohit, not Babar. A different stratosphere. His 50-innings peak from November 2013 brought roughly 2,948 runs at 73 with a strike rate near 119, the greatest 50-innings stretch since Viv Richards.

And this was not bully work against the weak. Away against India, Australia, England and New Zealand, he averaged 72.58 at 106. He spent roughly 1,480 days as the world’s number one batter, and because he was fighting peak Dhoni, prime Kohli, peak Sangakkara, Amla and Warner for the crown, he had to reclaim it 14 separate times. Fourteen. He finished eight of his thirteen full years ranked in the world’s top two.

The pressure numbers might be the maddest of all. In run chases: 4,204 runs at 56.81. In successful chases: an average of 82.77. And in ODI deciders, the games where everything is on the line, he averaged 118.60 at a strike rate of 113. Across three World Cups he made 1,207 runs at 63.53, striking at 117.

And then my favourite stat of all, the one I tell everyone. Every single ODI hundred AB de Villiers ever scored came at a strike rate above a run a ball. Making hundreds is one thing. Making them consistently is another. Making every last one of them at that tempo is simply not normal.

We were watching one of the greatest ODI batters who ever lived. It is time we said it properly.

[🫵🏽 @idoxvi]

His club and national team still can’t replace him 2 years later. GOAT

[Suheem @UtdSuheem]

don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

[Addy @Addy_abdian]

@devalshah355 @rishi__w @Aintn0waySwag 🔥