IPL: AB deilliers delustuous’ Delhi Daredevils opens on the era; ‘Many poisonous characters in that team say’. Cricket news
South African legend AB de Villiers has opened his time about his time with his now-difiction Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capital), calling his early IPL years a bitterwight chapter clouded by internal chaos. Despite covering an array of cricket legends, Delhi never made it in the semi -finals during de Villiers’ tenure from 2008 to 2010.“There were a lot of poisonous characters in that team,” de Villiers revealed in an interview with Cricket.com. “I hate you to name you – to burn people, you know – but Delhi Daredevils were in a hut.”Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!De Villiers made a playoffs with Delhi in 2008 and 2009 and scored 465 runs in the 2009 season held in South Africa, one of the team’s standout artists. However, his role decreased in 2010, and to his surprise, he found himself in the auction pool before 2011.
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“I thought I was going to be a man,” he remembered. “Then, suddenly, I was not playing again … I was told that I would be retained, and then the next minute, I looked at myself in the auction. I didn’t even know what happened. Such strange things went on.”
Despite the bitter decline, de Villiers recalled to share the dressing room with icons such as Glenn McGrath and Daniel Vettori. “Some of the main attractions of my life and career came during that tenure,” he said.De Villiers became one of the most loved and successful players in IPL history with Royal Challengers Bangalore, scoring more than 5000 runs. “The day I went to RCB, I felt as if they wanted me,” he said. “You are going to be a great player with us – you are part of the family.”
