
South African legend ab de villiers retired from IPL after the 2021 season. De Villiers played for two teams in his 14-year IPL career. Now he has made a big disclosure about his old IPL team delhi Daredevils (now delhi Capitals). Let us remind you that he played for the delhi franchise from 2008-2010. He made a big disclosure and told that despite having big star cricketers in those days, the delhi team was in very bad condition.
In a conversation with cricket.com, ab de villiers told that at that time there used to be legends like Glenn McGrath and Daniel Vettori in the team, but he has very bad memories associated with this team. He also admitted that as a young player he was afraid of big legends.
Did de Villiers take any name?
ab de villiers said, "I would hate to give you names. All I can say is that the condition of delhi Daredevils was very bad, really very bad. There were a lot of toxic people in that team." He also admitted that in his younger days he did not get much support in the delhi team. He said, "Three years in the delhi team were not very good for me. In this journey I also realized that there used to be very bad people in the team, I do not need to name them. I had hope, but the big players did not support me that much."
AB de Villiers' IPL career
In 2011, ab de villiers joined royal challengers Bangalore and played for RCB till retirement in 2021. He scored 5,162 runs in his 184-match IPL career, which included 3 centuries and 40 half-centuries. While playing for delhi, he scored 671 runs in 28 matches and 4,491 runs in 156 matches for RCB.