IPL 2017: AB de Villiers Reveals The Romantic Side Of His Personality
May 3, 2017 at 12:36 PM
There are very few sights in cricket which are as dangerous and ruthless as AB de Villiers in full swing. A batsman who has terrorised the bowlers with his breathtaking stroke-play, the South Africa One-Day Internationals skipper has earned the nickname of Mr. 360-degree for his unbelievable ability to hit any ball, anywhere, against any bowler.
But very few know that behind the swashbuckling and aggressive batsman lies a man who is utterly romantic. The 33-year old, who is currently in India for the Indians Premier League, himself confessed about the romantic side of his personality. The explosive batsman revealed that he has written several love letters during his school days but never managed to gather the courage to give those letters to the girls they were addressed to.
“I am a bit of a romantic, so any girl that I fell for during school days, I would write a letter but the problem with that was I was always too scared to give it to her. I would then go back home with the letter, with a lot of love in there, and I would climb to the roof of our house and I would hide the letter there,” de Villiers said at a recent promotional event in Mumbai.
And there were not 2 or 3 letters but around 30 which never reached the girls, de Villiers fell in love with.
“So they ended up being around 27-30 letters there at the end of my school career. All of them I was too scared to give it to the girls,” he added.
But with the passage of time, the stylish batsman has become more confident. And while he is married now, he has not left his habit of writing love letters although he now manages to deliver them to the right person- his wife Danielle. He told his audience how he left a letter in her passport when she was leaving South Africa and how much the gesture meant to her.
“Now that I am a bit older, and have finally got married, I have decided to use all that (experience) to write letters to my wife. Just the other day, when she left for South Africa, I slipped in a little-handwritten note into her passport which I knew she would read, once reaching the airport.
“I got a text message from her a day or two later when she arrived at home saying how much that meant to her,” the die-hard romantic concluded.