IPL 2020: AB de Villiers issues heartfelt apology to Royal Challengers Bangalore fans after loss to SunRisers Hyderabad
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman AB de Villiers has concern an apology to the followers of the franchise following their disappointing 6-wicket loss to SunRisers Hyderabad within the IPL 2020 Playoffs eliminator on Friday (November 6). As a end result, RCB had been dumped out of this 12 months’s version – failing but once more of their quest for a maiden IPL crown.
The South African, De Villiers, thanked the followers for his or her monumental help and apologized for his or her failure to go all the way in which. In a video posted on the official Twitter deal with of RCB, he mentioned: “To all our RCB followers, thanks a lot for the help. Wish you guys had been right here all through the event, we might’ve performed with a little bit of help from you guys within the stadium but it surely wasn’t meant to be. Hopefully subsequent time. Sorry about not going all the way in which.”
A memorable marketing campaign got here to a disappointing finish, however the RCB gamers savour the ultimate moments collectively within the dressing room earlier than they fly out of Dubai.
PS: After about 80 consecutive days, that is our remaining 9 AM video for the #IPL#PlayBold #Dream11IPL #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/BfZ5FrHWPH
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) November 7, 2020
The Proteas batsman, nevertheless, mentioned that there have been plenty of positives from the season, that the facet might take ahead.
“We gave it our best shot and we had a lot of fun. There’s a lot of positives which we will take on board moving forward. Thank you very for supporting us and always being behind us.”
In the Playoffs Eliminator on Friday, De Villiers was the one saving grace for RCB as they managed to place simply 131/7 on the board. De Villiers scored a decent 56 (off 43 balls) towards the in-form SRH bowling assault. Their sturdy batting lineup crumbled below stress with the in-form duo of skipper Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal scoring simply 6 and 1 respectively.
In reply, RCB bowlers did nicely to take the sport to the wire however then Kane Williamson (50* off 44 balls) and Jason Holder engaged in an unbeaten 65-run stand and took SRH to a 6-wicket win.
AB de Villiers completed the event with 454 runs to his title from 14 innings with 5 half-centuries and a powerful strike-rate of 158.74.
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