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'Accha hua Babar nhi pick kia'- Fans react as AB de Villiers predicts star India batter to be highest run scorer for 2023 World Cup

AB de Villiers says Shubman Gill will be the highest run scorer for this year's World Cup. Gill has been in sensational form since last year. 

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AB de Villiers predicts top run scorer

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The World Cup is around the corner and cricketing experts and former players have already started predicting the semi-finalists, top run scorers, and wicket-takers for the marquee event. Former South Africa batter AB de Villiers earlier gave his prediction for the four semi-finalists for the World Cup.

Now, with less than 10 days left, he has given his prediction of the possible highest run scorer for the mega event. He believes star India opener Shubman Gill will be the highest run scorer for this year's World Cup. Gill has been in sensational form since last year.

In 2023, the 23-year-old batter has scored six centuries. He has been in outstanding form this year, in the ODI format. He is the highest run-scorer in the ongoing Australia series, he has scored 178 runs in two innings at a stunning average of 89. The Punjab-born batter has scored 1230 runs in 20 ODIs, including a double hundred, five hundred and five fifties. No other batter has scored over 1,000 runs this year.

Shubman Gill will be the highest run-scorer in the World Cup: AB de Villiers

De Villiers said in his latest YouTube video, "Shubman Gill will be the highest run-scorer in the World Cup. He is in great form. I was always going to go with an opening batter—at the very worst, a No. 3 batter. I think Shubman is in such form that it would be silly of me to overlook him. He is a great player and has a fantastic technique. He is playing at home in India, yes, there will be pressure but he is my pick."

The former Protea cricketer further added, "His style and technique are quite simple and basic, as you would generally say for some of the best players of the world. You get some exceptions, like Steve Smith. Shubman Gill is much more traditional, very straightforward technique, and doesn't try a lot of different things. He can change the gears and put a lot of pressure on the bowlers."

"He has got this incredible ability of picking up the length very quickly; you see that with some of the best players in the world. Shubman is very quickly becoming one of those, one of the best players in all the formats. Very exciting young talent. He is still young but looks like an experienced campaigner already."

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