IPL: AB de Villiers is real wicketkeeping option this season, says Hesson
Mike Hesson, Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) Director of
Cricket has said that AB de Villiers will
once again be a wicketkeeping option for the franchise in this year's Indian
Premier League (IPL).
RCB is set to play the IPL 2021 opener
against Mumbai Indians on April 9 in Chennai. For a few matches last year, AB de Villiers donned
the wicketkeeping gloves and he is expected to do the same this year if it
fixes the balance of the playing XI.
"We were delighted with the fact that Ab de Villiers loved
wicketkeeping and he embraced it. He wanted to continue doing it, he is a real
option, we now have a couple of other wicketkeeping options which is great.
Mohammed Azharuddeen is a natural athlete with the gloves and in the field. We
also have KS Bharat, he is a natural keeper, gives us different options as
well," said Hesson in a video posted on the official Twitter handle of
RCB.
"We are not going to make the commitment now to you guys as
to who will do what. We are really pleased with the options we have got and AB
is certainly one of those," he added.
RCB's training camp will begin on March 29 for the upcoming
edition of the IPL. Hesson earlier had said that AB de Villiers will arrive on
March 28 for the upcoming IPL.
"We have got players arriving all the way through till April
1. Finn Allen will be playing in T20I in New Zealand on April 1 and then he
will come the day after... ABD arrives on 28," he said.
Hesson also said: "It is very different than the last year
where we had everybody together for a long period of time on the back of a
period where the guys had not trained or played. So, this time it is different,
we got players playing international cricket over here and overseas and
domestic cricket up until a hand full of days ago. So, we had to prepare in
slightly different ways."
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