AB de Villiers Disappoints Cricket Fans, his retirement will remain final.

CAPE TOWN: AB de Villiers has decided against a return to international cricket and will not play for South Africa at the Twenty20 World Cup that is scheduled to take place in India later this year, officials confirmed on Tuesday. De Villiers had been in talks with head coach Mark Boucher about a return to the limited overs side following his retirement from all international formats in May 2018.

"Discussions with AB de Villiers have concluded with the batsman deciding once and for all that his retirement will remain final," Cricket South Africa said when announcing their squads for limited overs series in the West Indies and Ireland over the next few months.

By: Thinking Boxx

Refreshed: May 18, 2021 6:42:49 pm 

Former South African cricketer AB de Villiers has retired from international cricket in the year 2018. But then de Villiers continued to play T20 leagues like Indian Premier League (IPL), Big Bash League (BBL) etc. So the cricket board of South Africa was hopeful that de Villiers would return to cricket and play the T20 World Cup scheduled later this year in October in India.

Accordingly, the director of South African cricket board Graeme Smith held talks with de Villiers. Before the talks Smith was optimistic that de Villiers would certainly rethink his decision and return to the Proteas squad. But disappointing everyone de Villiers made it clear that he would not be returning to international cricket.

“Discussions with AB de Villiers have concluded with the batsman deciding once and for all, that his retirement will remain final,” read the state of South African cricket board.

This news has upset many especially the Indian cricket fans. With his destructive batting, ABD has earned a huge following among Indian fans while he has an army with his IPL team, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).

South Africa's daring cricketer AB de Villiers won't be emerging from retirement to join the crew in front of T20 World Cup. Cricket South Africa (CSA) delivered an explanation in the midst of gossipy tidbits about De Villiers getting back to the global side. 

"Conversations with AB de Villiers have finished up with the batsman choosing for the last time, that his retirement will stay last," CSA said in an explanation posted via web-based media. 

CSA today declared the T20I, Test crew for the visit through West Indies and ODI crew for Ireland which did exclude De Villiers' name. 

The 37-year-old was in a mind blowing structure in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) before the competition suspended because of a few players and staff testing positive for Covid-19. He scored 207 runs in seven games this season at a normal of 51.75 including two half-hundreds of years. 

"I haven't stopped for a moment to talk with Boucher yet. Yet, we are arranged to have a visit some place during the IPL. Yet, indeed, we have been discussing it. He asked me a year ago on the off chance that I would be intrigued. I said 'totally'," De Villiers had said a month ago. 

As of late, South Africa were outmaneuvered by Pakistan in the home arrangement where they were beaten 2-1 and 3-1 by the guests in ODI and T20I arrangement individually. 

De Villiers took retirement from worldwide cricket in 2018 in front of World Cup 2019 where the Faf du Plessis-drove group won only three out of nine games and neglected to fit the bill for the semi-finals. 

SA T20I crew for West Indies: Temba Bavuma (c), Quinton de Kock, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, George Linde, Sisanda Magala, Janneman Malan, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Kyle Verreynne, Lizaad Williams, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius 

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