The Indian cricketers Yuzvendra Chahal and Suresh Raina recently had a conversation with each other during the coronavirus lockdown through the Instagram Live session on Tuesday. In the video, both the cricketers showered praises on Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) cricketer AB De Villiers.
During the session, Raina said, “I’m a huge fan of Ab de Villiers. He is a top cricketer. AB and Virat had so many good partnerships. It feels like he was a Bangalore-born person living in South Africa.”
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RCB’s Chahal was affirmative about Raina’s assessment and revealed how the crowds keep cheering the Proteas batsman’s name wherever they play in IPL. The wrist-spinner said, “I’ve seen that wherever he plays in India– be it Bangalore or Mumbai, the crowd keeps cheering ‘AB! AB!.”
If there’s one thing that both RCB and @ChennaiIPL fans can agree on, it is that we all love AB! ❤️#PlayBold pic.twitter.com/oYcWYdIGEP
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) April 21, 2020
Suggesting he should be named ‘AB devile Prasad,’ Raina lauded former Proteas batsman for his down-to-earth nature. He added, “He’s so down-to-Earth, a very very good human being. It feels like he’s an Indian, his name should’ve been AB Devi Prasad or something like that!”
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De Villiers has a massive fanbase in India with crowds cheering for him wherever he goes to play. In the IPL for RCB, he has amassed 4395 runs in 154 matches with the highest score of 133* and at a strike rate of 151.33. Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 19000 with almost 610 people losing their lives on Thursday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The entire world is slowly moving towards a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
