AB de Villiers has been a lynchpin of the RCB batting line-up over the years and is the only other player apart from skipper Virat Kohli to play for the franchise for more than a decade. Since his retirement from international cricket, he doesn-t play enough matches in a year and that makes him lack sharpness with the bat. Gambhir thinks that RCB would retain Maxwell over the South African ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auctions.
-Yes, because I think they will retain Glenn Maxwell since he is the future, and AB de Villiers is not,- Gambhir told ESPNCricinfo when asked about retaining the Australian all-rounder.
RCB can retain either Yuzvendra Chahal or Harshal Patel: Gautam Gambhir Haryana bowler Harshal Patel had his best IPL season as he returned with 32 wickets, the joint-highest by a bowler in any season, levelling the record with West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo (in 2013). IPL 2022 auctions will be huge as the majority of the players will go under the auctions as each franchise will be able to retain a maximum of three players.
Australian all-rounder Maxwell was phenomenal with the bat in his first season for RCB as he ended up the season as their highest-run scorer with 513 runs from 14 innings at the strike rate of 144.10.
On the other hand, RCB-s talismanic batter AB de Villiers struggled to score in the UAE leg of IPL 2021 and against KKR he could only manage 11 runs before he was clean bowled by Sunil Narine in the Eliminator match.
RCB were knocked out by Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets in the Eliminator game on Monday in Sharjah.
The loss against KKR ended RCB-s quest for their elusive IPL title and also it was their last game under the leadership of Virat Kohli, who had earlier decided to step down from the captaincy role at the end of the season.
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