#1 AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers, who is Virat Kohli’s teammate at Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), is arguably the best batsman in world cricket today as illustrated by the fact that he is one of only two batsmen to average more than 50 in both Test and ODI cricket presently. It’s a given, then, that de Villiers’ absence is a massive blow to the tournament.
He scored 395 runs from 14 matches at an average of 35.90 and a strike-rate of 158.63 for RCB in the IPL last season, but it wasn’t enough for RCB to reach the knock-out stages of the tournament and, thereby, qualify for the CL T20.
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