South Africa Rejects AB de Villiers’ Offer To Play ICC World Cup 2019, Twitter Reacts

Jun 6, 2019 at 1:53 PM

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South Africa Rejects AB de Villiers’ Offer To Play ICC World Cup 2019, Twitter Reacts

AB de Villiers had offered to make a comeback to international cricket for South Africa at World Cup 2019 in England. However, his offer was rejected by the South Africa team management. The reports surfaced now after the poor show from the South African team in the world cup 2019.

AB de Villiers’ offer of making a last-minute entry to the South African squad for the 2019 World Cup was rejected by the South Africa team management, ESPNcricinfo reported on Thursday (June 6).

The former South African batsman, who announced his retirement from international in May 2018, is said to have made the offer just 24 hours before South Africa’s selectors picked the 15-man squad for the World Cup.

AB de Villiers, 2019 World Cup, International Cricket
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The team management turned down AB de Villiers’ offer:

The 35-year-old is said to have spoken to captain Faf du Plessis, coach Ottis Gibson and convenor of selectors Linda Zondi, but his request was ‘not even considered’.

But, it wasn’t the expected reply for AB de Villiers, as the selectors, captain and the head coach weren’t entertained with that. In addition, there are quite a few rules, which denied his return to the World Cup team.’

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The first viewpoint was that the player needs to play a domestic tournament at least for a few months to be considered for the selection. Furthermore, they felt that it would be unfair for the other cricketers, who are breaking a sweat in the matches to grab a spot in the world cup team.

Meanwhile, South Africa have now recorded their worst start in eight World Cup campaigns. After losing their first two matches, to England and Bangladesh, they went down by six wickets to Virat Kohli’s men in Southampton on Wednesday.

Here are a few tweets:

https://twitter.com/VijayIsMyLife/status/1136534772321177601

https://twitter.com/TheRobustRascal/status/1136543176653586432

https://twitter.com/nicklodeon_meme/status/1136544699710263296

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