IPL 2021: Ranking wicketkeepers of all 8 teams ahead of the season
A good wicketkeeper has the ability to change the course of a match.
6. AB de Villiers (RCB)
He can play dazzling shots off perfectly good deliveries. He can pluck stunning catches in the outfield. In fact, there is literally nothing that AB de Villiers cannot do on a cricket field. And definitely, he can don the wicket-keeping gloves for his side when the need arises. The main reason why De Villiers ranks at No.6 is because he is a batsman who can keep, and is mainly in the side for his abilities as a batsman.
De Villiers has done the keeping duties in 44 of the 169 matches that he has played in the IPL. And, he has 26 dismissals to his credit. While 8 of them are stumpings, the rest of them are catches pouched behind the stumps. But then, it is De Villiers’ ability as a batsman that will make us gape at him all day.
The South African batting legend has scored a staggering 4849 runs in IPL cricket and has scored them at an average in excess of 40 (40.40). His strike rate across 156 IPL innings is a whopping 151.91. Needless to say, De Villiers will be a vital weapon in the RCB arsenal in the 2021 edition of the IPL.
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