"In my mind I'm a good captain" : AB de Villiers

[Abdullah719]

 

[Rayyman]

He's a good leader, but an average tactician.

 

[MenInG]

Didn't like the question on his captaincy!

 

[htariq25]

Bit overconfident. His captaincy is decent but not excellent.

 

[Nothing matters]

He's quite delusional about his captaincy and tbh recently he has come across as overconfident and borderline arrogant in his interviews which is quite surprising because on field he has been a gentleman, haven't seen him having confrontations on the field.I think he tries too much to play mind games which he's not good at.

 

[Arsalan Pro]

He is a good captain.

 

[Pete Rose]

Faf is their best captain. He has flair

 

[Ab Fan]

Okayish captain.. Has been there for a while and like most SA captain won many bilaterals for his team.

He isn't a terrible captain as many claim.

 

[ManFan]

Why are you always so defensive when it comes to critising players? AB has been a horrible captain and if he loses this match than the SA Board can remove him from the captaincy.

 

[James]

LOL. Too shy to play Test cricket and now also too mentally weak to withstand one challenging interview question. He is a joke and is on the way out.

 

[pakistanigoneaussie]

This reminds me of John Carver saying h was the best coach in the premier league

 

[Corridor of Uncertainty]

ABD is terrible in press conferences - by far the worst I have seen. Too open and defensive. Doesn't shut down questions well - either diplomatically or strongly.

Comes across as a student explaining misdemeanors in front of the principal.

Just tell them team tactics can't be revealed, selections will be made on the day after looking at the pitch and that whether we are calm or not Is irrelevant - results matter. We are up for it.

 

[Syed1]

That's what Misbah and Azhar thought too but the reality was different.

 

[TahirFan]

AB is the worst man to have captained South Africa.

The guy is dumb and arrogant

 

[marlonbrowndo]

AB is the worst man to have captained South Africa.

The guy is dumb and arrogant

Arrogant how?

 

[TahirFan]

Arrogant how?

AB appears on South Africa's televsions programs regularly. He is always attributing Proteas success on his performance. He spends lots of time talking about some of his great innings. The guy never mentions anything about Hashim Amla's contributions

In his last interview with Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer he had this to say after the defeat to Pakistan "Our top 3 batsmen must take more responsibity". Why not top 4, after all he is also falling.

In post match interviews he only talks about his innings but he never praises Amla after Amla plays a match winning innings

A few years back, a leading South African professor had this to say about AB De Villiers

For those of us who follow cricket — have you noticed that our limited overs captain AB de Villiers has a speech defect?:

He can’t say the names of black players who do well. Today he got excited about Kallis and du Plessis, who scored 4 and 34, but somehow could not mention Amla who scored 92, Duminy who scored 43 or Tsotsobe who took 3 wickets.

He does this after every game. Maybe our black players, if they want to be acknowledged, should play for New Zealand, whose captain is weird enough to judge his players by how well they do rather than their skin colour

The professor described AB De Villiers as an arrogant racist
You will only get to know the true AB if you listen to him on our TV stations

 

[Ozymandiasza]

AB appears on South Africa's televsions programs regularly. He is always attributing Proteas success on his performance. He spends lots of time talking about some of his great innings. The guy never mentions anything about Hashim Amla's contributions

In his last interview with Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer he had this to say after the defeat to Pakistan "Our top 3 batsmen must take more responsibity". Why not top 4, after all he is also falling.

In post match interviews he only talks about his innings but he never praises Amla after Amla plays a match winning innings

A few years back, a leading South African professor had this to say about AB De Villiers


The professor described AB De Villiers as an arrogant racist
You will only get to know the true AB if you listen to him on our TV stations

After your ficticious, bordering on lying, headline a day ago, I'll take your opinion with a grain of salt.

In terms of the bold part: what a load of rubbish.

AB praises for Amla, Tahir: http://www.sport24.co.za/Cricket/ICCChampionsTrophy/ab-praises-for-amla-tahir-20170604

AB sings the praises of masterful batsman Amla: http://www.heraldlive.co.za/sport/2015/08/21/ab-sings-praises-masterful-batsman-amla/

There are many more examples, but the point is clear, he certainly doesn't always attribute the Proteas success to himself.

 

[James]

CSA need to push for his retirement from all forms of the game. It might actually do him a favour, seeing as he is already engineering his own exit from time-consuming, difficult, tiring Test matches. South African cricket will be better for it in the long run. Self-centred weak-willed pillock.

 

[ToeCrusher2]

AB appears on South Africa's televsions programs regularly. He is always attributing Proteas success on his performance. He spends lots of time talking about some of his great innings. The guy never mentions anything about Hashim Amla's contributions

In his last interview with Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer he had this to say after the defeat to Pakistan "Our top 3 batsmen must take more responsibity". Why not top 4, after all he is also falling.

In post match interviews he only talks about his innings but he never praises Amla after Amla plays a match winning innings

A few years back, a leading South African professor had this to say about AB De Villiers


The professor described AB De Villiers as an arrogant racist
You will only get to know the true AB if you listen to him on our TV stations

What a load of rubbish, Ab might not be a great captain but there is nothing to suggest that he's arrogant, in fact he's very humble for the amount of success he's had, the problem is in your mind if you analyze every word of AB through the lens of religion and race.

 

[kingusama92]

Great batsman but FAF is the better skipper.

 

[Hasan123]

Faf is the better captain. He should be given the capatincy.

 

[Ab Fan]

AB is the worst man to have captained South Africa.

The guy is dumb and arrogant

That is Amla not him and he isn't arrogant at all.He is like Pollock in terms of captaincy who wasn't good either.

 

[James]

Great captaincy again, contributing to a slew of run outs in a key ICC event game.

 

[jnaveen1980]

That is like Donald Trump saying "In my mind i am a good president" lol Anywho ABDV atleast has a mind.

 

[James]

Surely he has to resign after this debacle.

 

[Buffet]

Faf is the better captain. He should be given the capatincy.

He simply looks better. AB lacks game awareness at times.

 

[Hasan123]

He simply looks better. AB lacks game awareness at times.

Correct. He is also too emotional at times

 

[Chrish]

This guy will keep playing T20 and ODI as long as he can and when his form dips to certain point, then he would return to play tests like he is doing some favor to his team.

Distasteful.

 

[vandokkum]

This man is a mental midget and a coward, this was confirmed a long time ago. Stick with Ipl son.

 

[MenInG]

http://www.sport24.co.za/Cricket/Proteas/de-villiers-to-decide-future-in-august-20170626

Cardiff - AB de Villiers left South Africa's tour of England saying he would decide his cricket future in August.

One of the outstanding batsmen of his generation, the 33-year-old headed home after captaining the Proteas in a 19-run defeat by England in Cardiff on Sunday that saw them beaten 2-1 in a three-match Twenty20 series.

They previously lost a one-day international series to England by the same scoreline and then suffered a hugely disappointing first-round exit at the Champions Trophy.

But a Test series against England is the centrepiece of a four-month tour.

However, it has long been planned that de Villiers would miss the four-Test campaign to take a break from the strain of being one of the world's leading players in all three international formats, as well as a man in demand at lucrative Twenty20 franchise events around the world.

Bangladesh are due to tour South Africa in September and de Villiers said he expected to know by then what his international workload would entail.

"I am going to meet with CSA (Cricket South Africa) in August, and that will decide my (international) future," de Villiers told reporters after making a typically dashing 35 off 19 balls.

"We will see what works for both parties," added the gifted shotmaker, who has scored more than 8 000 runs in 106 Tests, including 21 hundreds, at an average of over 50.

"We are not going to pick and choose games, but we are going to make a final decision about what happens for the next few years."

Asked what he would do for the next couple of months, de Villiers said: "I am going to spend a bit of time off at home with the family, I'm going to welcome my new youngster into the world, and obviously look to stay fit.

"I want to make sure I am ready for September, when Bangladesh come."

For all his success at Test level, de Villiers's burning ambition is to help South Africa win a maiden World Cup title.

Their attempts since a 1992 debut - after years of isolation due to apartheid - have been dogged by bad luck and reverses snatched from the jaws of all-but-certain victory, leaving South Africa with the unwanted tag of "chokers".

The next World Cup takes place in England in two years' time and de Villiers, in charge for a heart-breaking 2015 semi-final loss to co-hosts New Zealand in Auckland, said Sunday: "It's my main dream to win a World Cup for South Africa, or to be part of it in one way or another"

But de Villiers, whose stunning 31-ball century against the West Indies at Johannesburg in 2015 remains the fastest ODI hundred, added: "I don't even think it's in my hands, what is going to happen.

"I will wait until the final decision on the coach and things like that are made," he explained, with Russell Domingo's future already uncertain before he left the tour prior to the Proteas' three-run win in the second Twenty20 at Taunton on Friday after his mother was involved in a traffic accident.

"Then I can also have a chat to CSA, to see where I am going to fit in."

As well as de Villiers, South Africa could be without another senior batsman in Faf du Plesiss for the first Test at Lord's, which starts on July 6.

Du Plessis, the Proteas' Test skipper, is awaiting the birth of his first child, who is expected in the first week of July.

De Villiers, asked if he had thought about staying on to lead the Test side if du Plessis - who missed the Twenty20 series in anticipation - was still absent, replied: "No, not at all.

"I am batting really well at the moment, and really enjoying that. I love scoring runs, and that is all I am going to miss over the next two months."

 

[hur rizvi]

He lacks Guts to do substantial things.

He is a very so-so captain

 

[Mamoon]

He has been desperate to retire from international cricket for a year now. CSA should let him go in peace, so that he can prolong his IPL career and secure himself for the future. Neither parties owe each other anything, he has played long enough and has played a big part in victories, defeats and chokes.

 

[Hasan123]

We know he is going to retire from tests. It's absolutely ridiculous that he is delaying the inevitable.

 

[TahirFan]

In AB's mind he is a good captain and in everyone else mind he is a rubbish captain