http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 warns Royal Challengers Bangalore against complacency – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864 and expressed that the wily off-spinner is the most valuable player in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
De Villiers played a stunning knock on Sunday when he snatched victory from Deccan Chargers’ jaws to lift the morale of his team. South Africa’s limited-overs captain scored 47 runs off merely 17 deliveries and grabbed two crucial points for his franchise.
Prior to the match, RCB was struggling to gain momentum in the on-going season. It is still at number five in the points table with 11 points after as many matches and will have to be at its best for the remainder of the league matches, in order to qualify
for the play-off stage of the tournament.
De Villiers completely understands that his team cannot afford to be complacent.
"It is not over yet, we have a long way to go. This win has given us the required momentum, but we have to play some good cricket in the upcoming games,” he said.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221 scored 91 runs for the first-wicket partnership and laid the platform for De Villiers to finish the match in the latter stages. The middle-order batsman also feels that things went according to the plan against Deccan.
De Villiers said, "We collapsed a few times in the IPL before. So we needed our openers to build a foundation to launch a blitz right at the end which they did, and luckily I was there in the end to do the job."
RCB was under pressure before the match to play the legendary off-spinner from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 as they was struggling in the bowling department. Murali failed to pick up a wicket in the match but he bowled four extremely economical overs to help his team’s cause.
De Villiers feels that Murali has an amazing attitude towards the game and he is an asset for RCB.
"Murali is probably the most valuable player in the IPL. He is a great man to have in the squad,” the wicketkeeper/batsman said while praising the great off-spinner.
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