AB de Villiers - A superhero we all know and love

The comic-inspired world embraces the warriors, and the superheroes, who with their amplified strength, make life better for everyone. Quite evidently, the likes of Batman, Superman, and Iron Man are only constrained to the pages of a comic book and a fictional screenplay. However, the people from Bengaluru would beg to differ. Every year during April and May, a superman-like character enthrals us with a cocktail of sumptuous and unorthodox shots that often leave the cricketing fraternity perplexed. After all, what is a summer without a superhero?

AB de Villiers, in a different territory, scripted yet another Superman-like knock, sending the fielders on a leather hunt and almost halting traffic on a road adjacent to the stadium with his out of the park hits. On a sluggish track, where batsmen found it hard to muster runs, the Protea batsman made mincemeat of the KKR bowling attack. They had an arduous time containing his 33-ball stay at the crease, which was laced with 5 boundaries and 6 towering sixes. 

An 'AB'solute masterclass followed by a formidable performance by the bowlers spurred us to an 82-run victory over Kolkata Knight Riders.  

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Virat Kohli, who witnessed the carnage unfold from the other end, admitted that only a superhero-like character would have done this on a tricky surface. "Barring one super-human, everyone struggled on that pitch. The talk was around 165-170. On a pitch like that, only AB can do that. It was a special knock. We got 195 purely because of the genius of that man,” Kohli was quoted as saying at the post-match presentation. 

The monstrous knock also left the KKR skipper bewildered and searching for answers. Dinesh Karthik stated that AB de Villiers's blitz at the backend had a telling impact on the game. "De Villiers is a world-class player and hard to stop him on a ground like this and at the end of the day his innings was the difference between both sides,” Karthik said.