Breaking News: AB de Villiers breaks Sourav Ganguly's record
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26-08-2015, 11:54 PM
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AB de Villiers breaks Sourav Ganguly's record
AB de Villiers became the fastest batsman to reach 8000 ODI runs during the third ODI against New Zealand in Durban on Wednesday.
He surpassed Sourav Ganguly, who took 200 One day international innings to achieve this feat. The South African batsman took 182 innings to reach this milestone. This was 18 innings quicker than Ganguly and 28 innings quicker than Sachin Tendulkar. Congratulations to @ABdeVilliers17 on breaking yet another ODI record during the 3rd #SAvNZ ODI #howzstat pic.twitter.com/wZjnTKFhXD & ICC (@ICC) August 26, 2015 Ganguly scored 8000 runs in his 200th ODI innings against West Indies in Nagpur in 2002. The master blaster Tendulkar took 210 ODI innings to achieve this feat. He achieved the milestone during the 1999 World Cup match against Pakistan in Old Trafford. In the match against New Zealand, skipper de Villiers scored 64 runs which pushed the Proteas scorecard to 283 for the loss of 7 wickets at the end of 50 overs. De Villiers also holds the record for the fastest 50, fastest 100 and fastest 150 in ODI |
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