NEIL MANTHORP: AB struggles to field questions about his future out of the park
With De Villiers there is much else besides, and practical issues are clearly on his mind
It would have been impossible to imagine anything more unlikely before the Proteas started their tour of the UK in the middle of May, but AB de Villiers departed these shores with his reputation as a batsman dented and more confusion about his future every time he tried to clarify it. If "genius" makes one an eccentric, then he’s always been slightly off the wall. But it is his recent inability to explain himself and a tendency towards contradiction that has left even those who have been around for his entire career shaking their heads in confusion. Mind you, nobody asks questions in quite the same way as the British media, so he has been a little irritated. On at least eight occasions over the past 18 months, he has referred to the need for him to manage his workload.
Then, last week, he declared: "It has never been about managing my workload." There is a simple explanation. It was never about his "physical" workload. But De Villiers trusts neither himself nor his audience to...
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