On Monday, October 3, former Royal Challengers Bengaluru batter AB de Villiers finally put an end to rumours around his potential comeback.
AB de Villiers, a former South African captain, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket earlier this year, including the Indian Premier League, and subsequently left the league. Given that the 2020 IPL was staged in the UAE because of the COVID-19 outbreak, De Villiers was unable to play his farewell match in front of the Bengaluru crowd.
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On Monday, October 3rd, through a conversation on Twitter Spaces, De Villiers put to rest rumours about his possible return. The cricketer, who is 38 years old, told his Twitter followers that he will visit Chinnaswamy Stadium (the home stadium of the Bangalore club) in the upcoming year, not to play, but to thank the fans for their support over the past decade.
So, when AB de Villiers tweeted to his followers, he told them…
By doing this, the former daring batsman put an end to the speculations that had started after his IPL 2022 comment.
You can count on me to attend the IPL the next year.
“I would love to come to my second hometown,” De Villiers told VUSport.
“I will be at RCB next year, I am missing it. I don’t know in what capacity, but I’d like to visit my second home that is Chinnaswamy stadium – I am looking forward to it,” said de Villiers, who was recently inducted into the RCB Hall of Fame alongside Chris Gayle of the West Indies.
After scoring 9,577 runs in 228 ODIs, De Villiers became the first South African batsman to make a double century in Tests with a 217-run explosion against India in April 2008. In January of 2018, de Villiers, one of the most devastating hitters in ODIs, set the records for the fastest fifty & the fastest hundred by a batter, with scores of 50 and 100 coming in at 16 and 31 balls, respectively.
He ranks sixth on the list of cricketers with the most runs scored in IPL history, having scored 5,162 runs in 170 innings with the Royal Challengers Bangalore at an average of 38.70 at a strike rate of 151.68.
