MUMBAI: South African batting great AB de Villiers has a simple advice for Suryakumar Yadav, the World No 1 T20I batsman who’s going through a lean patch of late. In between having recorded three consecutive ducks in the ODI series against Australia last month, the dashing Yadav, the world’s No 1 T20I batsman, was out for 8 on his Test debut against the Aussies at Nagpur, and for 15 in Mumbai Indians’ first game in the IPL, against RCB at Bangalore.
Giving his own example of when he would lose form or he thought he had lost touch, De Villiers said, “I went through those patches a lot of times in my career, and it is something I can write a book about. To be out of form is something I always feared so much and when I was in form, I always respected the fact that my next bad knock could be just around the corner. So, whenever I got in, I ensured to keep going and worked hard at my game. I very clearly remember that (once) in the IPL I had two bad knocks in a row I would start getting anxious. I would be thinking ‘I am very close to being in bad form and I need to quickly get out of it’.”
