WHO is the impostor in jersey No 17 for Royal Challengers Bangalore and what has he done with AB de Villiers?It is a question Bangalore fans will have asked themselves several times during this year’s edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).De Villiers raised his bat to celebrate a half-century three times in his first eight innings of last year’s tournament. Eight knocks into this year’s IPL he has cracked just one 50. And that after he lit up the World Cup with a century and three half-centuries in seven innings to finish second in the averages and third on the run-scoring charts.His pyrotechnic 162 not out off 66 balls against West Indies in Sydney was unarguably the innings of the tournament and among the greatest yet played in pyjamas. A decently paced pitch and one of the bigger outfields in the game failed to dent De Villiers’s intent: to hit the ball higher, wider and handsomer than anyone else dared, which he did.Back in Bangalore the locals would have watched De Villier...
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