Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli ( pronunciation (help·info); born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. A right-handed middle-order batsman, he is the captain of the Indian Test team.^[1] He captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held inMalaysia. He represents Delhi in domestic cricket and is the captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier League.^[2]

Kohli made his ODI debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup. Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies at Kingston. On India's disastrous 2011/12 tour of Australia, in which India's senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in Adelaide.^[3]

In ODI cricket, Kohli holds multiple records including the record for the fastest century by an Indian batsman,^[4] and the fastest to 17 hundreds in ODI by any batsman.^[5] He is the fourth batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997–2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996–98) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007–09) to hit 1000 or more ODI runs in three or more consecutive calendar years.^[5] He also holds the record for most centuries in chases, with 14 centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar. He is the first batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or more in ODIs on two separate occasions.^[5] Kohli was the recipient of the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2012.^[6] SportsPro has rated him the 2nd most marketable athlete in the world.^[7] In October 2013, against Australia, Kohli hit the fastest ODI century by an Indian, the seventh fastest ever.^[8] In November 2013, he became the top-ranked ODI batsman for the first time.^[9] Kohli also received the Man of the Tournament during the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.^[10]

Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers

Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African cricketer, who captains the South AfricanOne Da

y International (ODI) team,^[1] having succeeded Graeme Smith after the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Widely regarded as the best batsman in the world at present,^[2][3][4] De Villiers dominated the top of the ICC Test batting rankings in 2014, along with Kumar Sangakkara. As of January 2015, he is ranked second in the ICC Test and first in the ODI batting rankings.^[5]

The son of Dr Abraham B de Villiers, he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. De Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who, in a very short space of time, has accumulated many runs in Tests including 16 centuries and 32 fifties. He still holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck (78),^[6] before being dismissed for nought against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman in an innings, with 278*. Until 2012, he was an occasional wicket-keeperfor South Africa, although since the retirement of regular Test keeper Mark Boucher and under his own ODI captaincy he has started to regularly keep wicket for the national side in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, but then decided to give up wicketkeeping after the debut of Quinton de Kock, and started becoming a part-time bowler.

He holds the record for the fastest 50(16 balls), 100(31 balls) and 150(64 balls) in One Day Internationals. On 18 January 2015, AB de Villiers smashed the fastest century in ODI history, breaking New Zealand's Corey Anderson's record, reaching 100 off just 31 balls and going on to score 149 runs off just 44 balls against the West Indies.