AB de Villiers heads home after T20 tour to mull his international cricket future
Cardiff — AB de Villiers left SA’s tour of England saying he would decide his cricket future in August. One of the outstanding batsmen of his generation, the 33-year-old headed home after captaining the Proteas in a 19-run defeat by England in Cardiff on Sunday. This meant the Proteas were beaten 2-1 in a three-match Twenty20 series. They previously lost a one-day international series to England by the same scoreline and then suffered a hugely disappointing first-round exit at the Champions Trophy. But a Test series against England is the centrepiece of a four-month tour. However, it has long been planned that De Villiers would miss the four-Test campaign to take a break from the strain of being one of the world’s leading players in all three international formats, as well as a man in demand at lucrative Twenty20 franchise events around the world. Bangladesh are due to tour SA in September and De Villiers said he expected to know by then what his international workload would entail....
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