He told Cricket.com, “I would not like to tell you the name-people, you know but the condition of Delhi Daredevils was bad. There were many poisonous characters in that team. There were many veteran players who remember it a bitter-minded. To spend time with people. He was my hero and I was a little afraid of them. “

De Villiers, 41, also enjoyed the 2009 IPL season in South Africa. In that season, he scored 465 runs playing all 15 matches, including a century, while De Villiers played only 13 matches in 2008 and 2010. Speaking further De Villiers said, “2009 was good. I played almost the entire season in South Africa, came back and I felt that I would become a great player. Then suddenly, I was not playing again. It was a mixed feelings. I was told that I was kept intact and then the next minute, I saw myself in the auction. I did not even know what happened. Very strange things happened.”

In the 2011 auction, De Villiers was included by RCB and he was Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle He became one of his best batting superstars with. De Villiers is the second highest run -scorer of RCB, scoring 4511 runs in 145 innings, who is second after Kohli.