Abraham Benjamin De Villiers came to his own form on Sunday afternoon at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. He came to the crease when RCB lost Devdutt Paddikal at 95-3 in the 12th over, he joined in-form Glenn Maxwell who already cruised to a lightning fifty after a poor start by RCB losing skipper Kohli and Pattidar early in the second over to Varun Chakravarthy.
At the time RCB was looking for a good score at what looked like a slow wicket at the start, AB took his time, in the beginning, scoring 12 off 9 balls. AB took the charge of Varun Chakravarthy in the 15th over and never looked back since He went ahead and accelerated the RCB innings and went ahead to hit back-to-back fours in the next over as well against Prasiddhi Krishna.
Kylie Jamieson joined AB in the last 3 overs, The partnership added 56 runs off 18 balls off which De Villiers scored 45 in just 14 balls, AB hit some of the most astonishing shots that kept bowlers in awe.
Virat Kohli seemed to enjoy the innings the most as his expressions were visible from the dugout, some of the De Villiers shots were so amazing that other batsmen couldn’t even imagine playing them, stated the commentators.
AB De Villiers scored an astonishing 76 off 34 balls consisting of 9 fours and 3 huge sixes, He took the total of RCB to 204-4 which once looked like will finish around 170-180.