KEVIN MCCALLUM: Here’s hoping cricket retirement was our AB’s fake act too
It would be a hard heart and foolish soul that would turn down the chance of having the genius of AB back
One of the biggest stories this week was that a Russian journalist with the initials AB had faked his own death to stop others from killing him first. One of the other not-so-big stories in SA this week was the faint hope that a man with the initials AB had faked his own retirement just to stop the game he loved from killing that love first. In the conference room at the Cricket SA headquarters in Melrose on Monday, Ottis Gibson was careful when asked about AB de Villiers and whether he would welcome him back to the ODI squad should he decide he would like to play in the 2019 World Cup after all. There was a lot of "we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it" in his answer. It’s not really his choice, ultimately. There are selectors and administrators and others around him who have some say, but it would be a hard heart and foolish soul that would turn down the chance of having the genius of AB back. That bridge would not just be crossed. It would be built of iron, lined with red car...
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