Sidelined AB de Villiers still hopeful of playing in Aussie tests

07 October 2016 - 18:21
By Telford Vice

Can one player‚ who is not an all-rounder‚ be worth two? Yes‚ if that player is AB de Villiers. An elbow injury has taken De Villiers out of the one-day series between SA and Australia‚ who have rested Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.It’s difficult to argue that SA will not be more affected by De Villiers’ absence than the Aussies will be by the fact that Starc and Hazlewood are not around.

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