India, Sept. 4 -- AB de Villiers is widely considered to be amongst the greatest names in the history of ODI cricket batting, but where does the South African great rate himself? This question was answered as de Villiers was put on the spot, asked to blind rank 10 ODI batters of the 21st century, the kind of challenge that is very easy to mess up.

Appearing on Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali's 'Beard Before Wicket' podcast, de Villiers got the spotlight as the pair of English players asked him to rank each batter between one and ten without knowing who comes next, with the stipulation that this was for post-2000 version of the batters.

What followed was an immediate stitch-up, as the first person on the list was Sachin Tendulkar, a player who...