IPL: De Villiers opens up on Delhi Daredevils era; says 'a lot of poisonous characters ...'

South African fable AB de Villiers has opened up astir his tumultuous clip with the now-defunct Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals), calling his aboriginal IPL years a bittersweet section clouded by interior chaos.

Despite boasting an array of cricketing legends, Delhi ne'er made it past the semi-finals during de Villiers' stint from 2008 to 2010.“There were a batch of poisonous characters successful that team,” de Villiers revealed successful an interrogation with Cricket.com. “I'd hatred to springiness you names - burning people, you cognize - but the Delhi Daredevils were successful shambles.”Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!De Villiers made the playoffs with Delhi successful 2008 and 2009 and was 1 of the team's standout performers, scoring 465 runs successful the 2009 play held successful South Africa.

However, his relation diminished successful 2010, and to his surprise, helium recovered himself successful the auction excavation up of 2011.

“I thought I was going to beryllium the man,” helium recalled. “Then, each of a sudden, I wasn't playing again… I was told I would beryllium retained, and past the adjacent minute, I saw myself successful the auction. I didn't adjacent cognize what had happened. So galore weird things went on.”

Despite the bitter fallout, de Villiers fondly remembers sharing the dressing country with icons similar Glenn McGrath and Daniel Vettori.

“Some of the highlights of my beingness and vocation came during that stint,” helium said.De Villiers went connected to go 1 of the astir beloved and palmy players successful IPL past with Royal Challengers Bengaluru, amassing implicit 5000 runs. “The time I walked into RCB, I felt similar they wanted me,” helium said. “You're going to go a large subordinate with america - you're portion of the family.”