AB de Villiers’ softening commitment to test cricket hit the game like a bombshell on Tuesday‚ but that bomb has been ticking for some time. De Villiers‚ who turns 33 next month‚ ruled himself out of the three-test series South Africa will play in New Zealand in March to focus on trying to keep enough in the tank to play in the 2019 World Cup. But he stopped short of retiring from test cricket. The first indication that De Villiers was considering his future came on Wednesday‚ and from no less reliable a source than one of his oldest friends. “I’m not sure how AB will feel in terms of test cricket so we will have to see‚” Faf du Plessis said on the eve of the third test between South Africa and Sri Lanka at the Wanderers.
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