Brad Hogg settles Virat Kohli vs AB de Villiers debate

Dixit Bhargav | 21/03/2020
Brad Hogg settles Virat Kohli vs AB de Villiers debate

Brad Hogg settles Virat Kohli vs AB de Villiers debate: The former Australian cricketer picked his favourite batsman between two greats.

It is rare that batting legends such as Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers remain part of the same T20 franchise for the numbers of years these two have been with Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Kohli, who played his inaugural season of the cash-rich league at RCB in 2008 and has been playing for them since then, received de Villiers’ support in 2011.

If the 13th season of the tournament gets conducted this year, it will mark a decade of Kohli and de Villiers calling the shots for Royal Challengers.

The combined prowess of both the players can be observed from the fact that the top two batting partnerships in the Indian Premier League belong to them.

Considering all their phenomenal innings for Bangalore, one can not deny that the pair often gets compared on lines of who is the better T20 batsman among the two.

Brad Hogg settles Virat Kohli vs AB de Villiers debate

Former Australia spinner Brad Hogg, who recently rated IPL and PSL at par with each other, answered a fan’s query on social media platform Twitter regarding who among Kohli and de Villiers is the better T20 batsman.

“Considering AB still being in such a supreme form after retirement and Virat too at peak of his game, Who do you guys think is a better batsman between AB & Kohli,” the fan asked Hogg.

In reply, the 49-year old batted for Kohli purely on the basis of stats. In 281 T20s, Kohli has amassed 8,900 runs at an average of 41.20 and a strike rate of 134.56 including five centuries and 64 half-centuries. On the contrary, de Villiers’ 8,657 T20 runs have come in 310 matches at an average of 37.15 and a strike rate of 149.77.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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