5 players who can break the 200-run barrier next at this World Cup

After only half of the group stage matches, we have already been treated to the first World Cup double hundred, the fastest 150 in ODIs ever, the fastest fifty in a World Cup and six 150+ scores. The perpetrators of these records have been familiar dangerous men – Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Brendon McCullum, David Warner, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Hashim Amla. Moreover, South Africa became the first team to score two consecutive 400+ scores in ODIs.There is some reason this World Cup is being touted as the World Cup of records, especially for the batsmen. As a long way remains till we reach the final, one can sense a lot more records breaking. Going by the trend, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched to expect another onslaught from a power player resulting in the second World Cup double hundred.Let us rack our brains to predict the five men who are most likely to share this record with Chris Gayle at the end of March 2015:

#1 AB de Villiers

The superhumanmilestones require superhumans to conquer. AB de Villierscan hit any bowler at any stage of the game toany part of the ground. It will be foolish to rule out De Villiers chances of reaching the milestone, even afterknowing that he has already exploded this time with arecord-breaking 162 off 66 balls. Hisother cameoshave also inflicted enough damage on oppositions, as reflected in his strike rate of 161 in the 4 matches so far.

The lynchpin of South Africas 2015 campaign, AB is arguably the most dangerous batsmen of this edition and if he continues at this neck-breakingspeed, this could well be De Villiers world cup. The match against UAE could be oneof two extremes in this World Cup and an ideal platform for AB to cross the barrier that he truly deserves to reach.