AB de Villiers will always be the most missed cricketer...
There couldn't have been a better time to look back at the career and the phenomenon of AB de Villiers than right now. South Africa succumbed to a 2-0 whitewash against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. But it isn't only the scoreline that hurts them but the manner of defeats adds insult to injury. In the first test, Proteas' both innings combined total couldn't overhaul Sri Lanka's first innings total itself. Kagiso Rabada looked good in the first test and so did Maharaj in the second when he took a record 9 wickets in the 1st innings but none of the South African batsmen except Theunis de Bruyne looked confident. The likes of Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar even the mighty Hash looked completely outdone by the Lankan spinners. youngsters like Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock promised a lot but failed to deliver on these dust bowls as is the case so often when foreign teams travel to the sub continent. Dale Styen made a comeback to the international cricket but it is fair to say t...