Even Virat Kohli couldn’t believe it. Soon after the semi-final against the Gujarat Lions ended, the RCB skipper — who had not stopped smiling for the longest time — weighed in on AB de Villiers’ genius: “That should end all the debates about who is the best going around.”
Well, we are not too sure about that statement but AB is certainly magical. RCB were reduced to 29-5 before AB decided to start his show and what a show it was.
As Sunil Gavaskar later said: “He is making the bowlers look helpless.”
It started off with this:
It quickly changed to this:
And eventually everyone, including the Gujarat bowlers, just bowed to his genius:
When Plan A doesn’t work (Gayle)
When Plan B doesn’t work (Kohli)There’s always plan AB 😎 @ABdeVilliers17 Congratulations RCB @RCBTweets— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) May 24, 2016
Combined Runs:
AB de Villiers + Dwayne Smith: 152 runsGayle+Kohli+Rahul+Watson+Baby+McCullum+Finch+Raina+Jadeja: 19 runs#IPL2016 #RCBvGL— Sidhant Maheshwari (@msidhant) May 24, 2016