ODI SERIES
AB in the frame for comeback at the Bullring
A player of De Villiers’s calibre could change the Proteas’ fortunes
It is a comment on SA’s uncertainties in their one-day series against India that the return of AB de Villiers to the fold is not unqualified good news. De Villiers‚ who missed the first three games of the rubber with a finger injury‚ is the only addition to the squad for the remaining three matches. And how his team need him considering they have lost all three matches by ever more convincing margins. The less good news is that his presence in the fourth at the Wanderers on Saturday is not assured. "He is going to be assessed [on Friday] when he joins up with the squad‚" team management said on Thursday. "The decision will be made then." SA‚ who are also without Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock through injury‚ have yet to reach 300 in the series and have twice been dismissed for fewer than 200 runs. A player of De Villiers’s calibre could change that narrative singlehandedly‚ particularly on a pitch as predisposed to delivering big ODI totals. And De Villiers has tended to deliver...
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