IPL 2018 | We still believe we can beat anyone, asserts AB de Villiers

05/12/2018

AB de Villiers, who hasn’t had one of the best IPLs with RCB so far has assured fans that RCB are not dead yet and believes that they can beat anyone. Royal Challengers Bangalore have just won 3 out of the 10 matches they have played and are on the brink elimination from the tournament.

With just 3 wins in 10 matches in this edition of IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore have almost been knocked out of the tournament. There is some hope that they might qualify for the knockouts, but that depends on them winning all of their remaining matches. RCB face Delhi Daredevils at Feroz Shah Kotla on Saturday, which would be a good opportunity for them to get a win by a huge margin and improve their net run rate. Last time, RCB faced DD, they recorded a dominating win at the Chinnaswamy stadium where de Villiers was the man that stood up for RCB that night and smashed DD all over the park. De Villiers scored unbeaten 90 runs off 39 balls and got his team to victory.

De Villiers compared RCB to an ill golfer, who has nothing to lose. He insisted that a player without any worry always performs well and same is the case with RCB.

"There is an old saying: beware the ill golfer. Be wary of the golfer who arrives at the course saying he isn’t feeling well and doesn’t expect to play well, because he will play without pressure and without trace of any fear of failure ... and, more often than not, he will relax and perform extremely well. It might be said that RCB is currently the ill golfer of the IPL," de Villiers wrote in his column for The Times of India on Saturday.

Despite having one of the best squads in IPL, RCB have failed to live up to the expectations. When the matches have gone close, RCB have ended on the wrong side of the result and de Villiers admitted that the team has let their fans down.

"We have assembled a strong squad and we have played well at times and yet, in crucial moments, usually in the closing overs with both bat and ball, we have let ourselves down badly, won only three matches out of 10 and now find ourselves on the brink of elimination," he wrote.

De Villiers, however, insisted that they are not dead and believed that they can beat anyone. He felt that the fact they are still alive in the tournament would provide them with the necessary push to go out and give their best.

"And yet, and yet ... we’re not dead yet. There is no doubt that we need to win all four of our four remaining league matches — against DD at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Saturday, against KXIP in Indore on Monday, then at home to SRH on Thursday and, finally, against RR at Jaipur on Saturday 19 May. We know we have let people down, yet we know we retain a chance of sneaking into the knockout phase, and we still believe we can beat anyone," he concluded.

IPL 2018 | We still believe we can beat anyone, asserts AB de Villiers

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