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Unorthodox AB delivers in style

 

AB de Villiers lays into a drive. (BCCI photo)

(ESPNCricinfo) – AB de Villiers had been threatening to fire. Yesterday, when he finally did, there was elation and relief in equal measure for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Their bowlers in particular have borne the brunt of some stunning assaults this season. Here, they watched one of their own give back, and in some style.
Conventions and text-book cricket were thrown out of the window. Out came the dash of the unorthodox to ensure the Chinnaswamy was one giant party that went home singing RCB hymns.

de Villiers’ unbeaten 39-ball 90, on a surface where there was grip and turn for the spinners, lifted Royal Challengers to their second win. For Delhi Daredevils, rooted to the bottom of the table with just one win in five games, there was some consolation.

Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, two men they retained ahead of the auction, made destructive half-centuries to lift Daredevils from 58 for 2, the lowest 10-over score this season, to a competitive 174. Unfortunately, their bowlers delivered neatly-wrapped gifts to de Villiers and saw their defence turn cold 15 overs into the chase.

de Villiers has been noticeably faster off the blocks this season, going at a first-ten-ball strike rate of nearly 170. Over the past three seasons that figure was 126.7. Surely he wouldn’t bat that way with the side needing a repair job? Wrong.
Within three balls of his arrival in the fifth over, he changed the mood with two boundaries off Shahbaz Nadeem. In the left-arm spinner’s next over, de Villiers improvised to open up the leg side to play three brutal sweeps to truly rev up the chase. He hardly mistimed deliveries, found his spot at will and brought out an array of high-quality strokes that were difficult to match.

Not even Kohli’s wicket for 30, to some Trent Boult brilliance through a perfectly-timed leap and a one-handed snatch inches from the deep-square leg fence, helped, despite Royal Challengers needing 83 off 54 balls.

The audacity in de Villiers’ strokes lay in how he casually swept medium-pacer Harshal Patel into the stands at deep-square leg. His South Africa team-mate Chris Morris wasn’t spared either. All this meant whatever happened at the other end, including missed run-outs and leg stumps being sent for a cartwheel, was just a sideshow.

Gautam Gambhir, one of the better players against spin, didn’t give himself a chance on this track, and was out mistiming a pull to square leg. Daredevils played out 22 dot balls and limped to 28 for 2, the lowest Powerplay score this season. Chahal’s two tight overs that went for just 11 set Royal Challengers up nicely.

That Daredevils overcame a slow first half to wallop 116 off the next 10 was down to Pant and Iyer’s 49-ball 75 stand. Pant started with a wallop through extra cover, while Iyer, who strikes at less than 100 for his first 10 deliveries, began with two sparkling strokes. Where Gambhir struggled for timing, these two were calculative initially, and began to open up slowly.

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