AB de Villiers is extra-ordinary, says Cheteshwar Pujara – Cricket News Update
Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) top-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CA-Pujara-c1209, is all praise for his teammate and South African captain, AB de Villiers. Pujara feels that no other batsman can play the sort of shots De Villiers comes up with.
RCB is not having very good tournament so far as they have just 11 points after the same number of matches and is at number seven on the points table. However, with five more matches for the franchise, RCB has a chance to qualify for the play-off stage of
the tournament.
Most of RCB’s players have struggled in the tournament so far but AB de Villiers has performed extra-ordinarily in the on-going season. The right-handed batsman from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 stunned Deccan Chargers in the closing stages of the match last week and scored
an unbeaten 47 off 17 balls to seal victory for his team.
Some of the cricket pundits feel that AB bats too deep in the batting order and he must be given an opportunity to face more deliveries, in order to be more effective. Punjara expressed that De Villiers is surely one of the best batsmen of the world but
it is part of the strategy to make him bat in the middle-order, so that he can finish matches for the team.
Pujara said, “The kind of batsman he is, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Robert-Border-c43726 would definitely like to bat up the order but he has been assigned a particular role in the team and he is executing it with utmost ease. Hitting a reverse shot against spinners is fine, but to do that against
fast bowlers -- you have to be http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887.”
The out of favour Test cricketer further added that the return to form of Virat Kohli and Zaheer Khan is also a positive sign for the franchise. However, it is a massive disappointment that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864 cannot play together because
of the team combination.
“Unfortunately we can't play them both at the same time. However, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 getting back into the groove, RCB has a decent chance. Our first priority however is to qualify for the play-offs and take it from there,” he added.
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