West Indies holds a particular place in AB de Villiers‘ coronary heart because it has been considered one of his favourite groups to play in opposition to. In January 2015, he etched his identify in cricket historical past by smashing the quickest century (31 balls) ever recorded within the sport in opposition to the West Indies. Over the course of 24 matches in opposition to them, De Villiers accrued 1279 runs at a powerful common of 67.32, together with 5 centuries and 4 fifties.
In the course of the match in Sydney in 2015 World Cup in February, the place South Africa scored 408 runs, De Villiers registered the quickest 150 in cricket historical past (64 balls) additionally in opposition to the West Indies. Serving because the captain on the time, he displayed his extraordinary batting abilities by hanging 17 fours and eight sixes throughout his explosive innings.
Apparently, the previous world No1 ODI batter, lately revealed that he was sick earlier than the sport. In an interview on JioCinema’s ‘House of Heroes,’ the previous South African skipper shared that he was unwell the morning of the match and didn’t even heat up earlier than going out to bat. He talked about that he had been unable to sleep the earlier night time attributable to drugs, and he was truly sleeping earlier than his innings. De Villiers mentioned that he informed the coach he was going to take a nap and never heat up for the sport.
“I’ll offer you yet one more instance of that. Sydney Cricket Floor 2015. We performed a World Cup sport in opposition to the West Indies. And I used to be very nervous, very fired up. It’s a should win for us. However 3:00 that morning I bought actually sick in my room, and I bought injections and all types of stuff. I didn’t sleep. I arrived on the Sydney Cricket Floor and I informed the coach, hear, I don’t assume I can heat up, I’m simply going to take a nap,” the previous South African mentioned.
Along with revealing his sickness and lack of preparation, De Villiers additionally shared his expertise of how he felt earlier than stepping out to bat in opposition to the West Indies. The 39-year-old described the moments earlier than his innings as if the whole lot was taking place in sluggish movement. He talked about being in a half-asleep state and having a novel notion of the sport.
The Pretoria-born defined that on that specific day, he had a sensation of seeing the ball greater than traditional, which made batting seemingly simpler for him.
“I bear in mind standing there dealing with my first ball and I used to be like, I don’t care if I get on the market, I’m simply going to see the ball and similar to transfer slowly. Be in my mode, you already know? And it was unbelievable how in such sluggish movement the whole lot occurred that day. Seeing the ball greater, I used to be half asleep. Trying on the solar simply standing there going like, oh, this sport is definitely so pleasing, really easy, so sluggish and it’s so troublesome to get into that zone. In that zone, it’s so pleasing,” De Villiers concluded.
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