IPL: Most underutilised XI in the history of the tournament

5. AB de Villiers (c & wk) (DD)

AB de Villiers, who is perhaps the best batsman of the RCB franchise to date, had initially begun his IPL career with the Delhi franchise. Since the Delhi franchise, in its inaugural season, had a commendable pool of overseas players, de Villiers had only featured in a total of six IPL games where he hardly showed his magic.

However, in the next season, ABD became the established member of the team and in his 15 games, he amassed a pyramid of 465 runs at an average of 51.66. But his bleak form in the 2010 season eventually made him lose his place to England’s Paul Collingwood.

After all, his midseason exclusion and later on his overall exclusion from the DD team in IPL 2011, turned to be an extremely obnoxious event for the franchise, especially when he started playing some utterly remarkable knocks for RCB.

Overall, the turn of events in the midseason of IPL 2010 might have prompted DD to lose him but apparently, they did go on to lose one of the best batsmen of the current era.