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Ab de Villiers (Source: Twitter)
Ahead of the first game of the 16th season of the Indian T20 League, former South Africa superstar AB de Villiers has named his top four teams for the tournament. Notably, the first game of the season is set to start in some time as Chennai will take on Gujarat at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Ahead of the game, De Villiers, along with Chris Gayle, has picked their top four teams, who can make it to the playoffs this season.
Former Bangalore players picked up their teams while speaking in the panel expert of Jio Cinema. For the two-month-long cricketing fest, De Villiers picked MS Dhoni’s Chennai along with defending champions Gujarat, Hyderabad, and his former team Bangalore to qualify for the playoffs. Meanwhile, Universe Boss Chris Gayle shocked everyone with his pick as he didn’t pick his former team Bangalore to qualify for the playoffs.
The West Indies superstar picked defending champions Gujarat, and five-time champions Mumbai, Rajasthan, and Lucknow to qualify for the playoffs. Notably, the duo was recently introduced in the hall of fame by the Bangalore franchise for their contribution to the franchise.
Will Gujarat be able to make a winning hat-trick over Chennai?
In the first game of the tournament, MS Dhoni-led Chennai will take on defending Champions Gujarat. Hardik Pandya led-Gujarat will look to continue their dominance over Chennai to register their third victory over them. Meanwhile, the four-time champions will try to make a comeback as they finished 9th last year.
Chennai skipper MS Dhoni is reportedly playing his last season in the Indian T20 League and the team will look to give him a great farewell. Dhoni retook the captaincy role for the franchise, last year, after Ravindra Jadeja failed to lead the team in a great manner.
Chennai will also be looking for a serious candidate for the captaincy role to replace MS Dhoni for the upcoming seasons. Meanwhile, fans react to AB de Villiers' pick and called his prediction a big failure. A Twitter user said, “All of his picks will surely fail to qualify.”
Here are some Tweets:
Imagine none of them qualifies ☠️
— Mohit (@MohitRohitian) March 31, 2023
All These 4 teams can be eliminated early now that ABD has chosen them 🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Pran0524 (@Pran0524) March 31, 2023
So the top 4 will be
— Rohan Jain (@RohanJain028) March 31, 2023
-mi
-rr
-lsg
-kkr
That means csk winning
— Harshit Baria (@hbaria03) March 31, 2023
Bottom four are confirmed now Atleast
— . (@Cule_Adi) March 31, 2023
He gave SRH 4/10 rating after auctions 😭
— 🍟H (@goatxmark) March 31, 2023
Thank You AB for not choosing us 💗🫶
— Rajasthan Royals Fans Army™ - RR Fan Club (@RoyalsFansArmy) March 31, 2023
same deviliers gave 4.5 rating to the srh team after the auction.
— Mr. Neemo (@balubalu662) March 31, 2023
Bruh he also predicted india as 2022 wc winners we all knew what happened 😭😭
— I_am_hritik (@Iamhritik6) March 31, 2023
At what time opening ceremony starts?
— Last Bencher (@itslastbencher) March 31, 2023
CSK over RR lmao
— Binal 🇦🇷 (@binalvora12) March 31, 2023
@YKaturu pic.twitter.com/TTh0iCAaMe
— Tech Radar (@TechRadar9) March 31, 2023
That’s Why ABD is Goat
— Shivraj (@GoatGayle333) March 31, 2023
One more reason to hate ABD @76thHundredWhxn
— ✨ (@KohliKiDeewanii) March 31, 2023