IPL 2021: Current best playing XI of the tournament
IPL is full of quality players across franchises.
5. AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers is the most popular and loved foreign cricketer due to his unreal batting skills and humble nature. He is one of the best batsmen of the modern era, right up there with his great friend and RCB teammate, Virat Kohli. He is probably the only foreign player who gets massive support in all parts of India.
He has played 176 matches – the most played by a foreigner and scored 5056 runs including 40 fifties and three hundreds at an average of 40.77 and a strike rate of 152.38. The numbers are staggering but the impact he has is monumental. After coming to RCB in 2011, he has been their crisis man and won matches single-handedly quite often.
Also popularly known as Mr 360, he is probably the only batsman in the world who can hit behind the wicketkeeper with the same effectiveness as hitting behind the bowler. Though retired from international cricket to the dismay of fans around the world, he still has some years of intense franchise cricket left in him and would like to finish it by winning the IPL for RCB.
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