South African star batsman AB de Villiers is in India playing in the 11th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). He is with his family – wife, and kids and he is making most of this time together. After their game against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), decided to go out on a tour of Bangalore with his family and to make the ride fun they went in an auto rickshaw.

Now Indians are pretty familiar with this but a cricketer of the stature of AB in an auto is a pretty uncommon thing. He even made a small video and we can see it was in the afternoon, odd hours, least traffic but at least a few fans did manage to spot them. They followed his auto on their vehicles and were shouting “Ee sala cup namade” which is RCB fans slogan for this IPL. It roughly translates to the cup is ours.

De Villiers turned to his family and his wife as well as kid repeated “Ee sala cup namade” after him. He said that we are on a tuk-tuk ride in Namma Bengaluru. Meanwhile, the fans following them wanted to take a photo amidst the moving auto. One of them almost got down from the scooter to click a selfie. RCB certainly have really passionate fans who have over the years, irrespective of the final outcome backed the team.

Here is the video:

AB de explores Bangalore in an Auto rickshaw with his family. Fans shout 'Ee Sala Cup Namde' #ESCN #RCB #PL2018 @RCBTweets pic.twitter.com/dPRVFKgg7c

— Sai Kishore (@DivingSlip) April 26, 2018

This time around, the results have really hurtful for RCB. They’ve played 6 matches and won just two. Last night Bangalore faced off against CSK and batting first the team posted 205 runs on the board but couldn’t defend it. For CSK Ambati Rayudu and MS Dhoni stole the show. Dhoni also hit the winning six in the last over to take his team over the line with 5 wickets and a couple of balls to spare.

RCB next take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and will want to win this one to keep their hopes of advancing to the playoffs alive.