Playing his first game in almost five months, de Villiers brought back his heydays with a match-winning knock for Royal Challengers Bangalore against defending champions Mumbai Indians in the IPL opener.
The high-risk game that he plays involves a “fear of failure” which has pushed the talismanic AB de Villiers to focus even more on dealing with the various challenges of T20 format.
Playing his first game in almost five months, de Villiers brought back his heydays with a match-winning knock for Royal Challengers Bangalore against defending champions Mumbai Indians in the IPL opener.
Bold Diaries: AB de Villiers Interview part 1
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Asked how he manages to do that year after year, de Villiers replied: “It’s not always very enjoyable. I try and play the situations that I am confronted with in the best possible way, sounds pretty simple. But fact of the matter is that when you bat in the middle order, the situation changes every time.”
“It’s a matter of adapting and trying to make most of it…It comes off more often than not,” the Proteas legend told RCB ‘Bold Diaries’.
