4 RCB, 5 MI, and 2 CSK players feature in AB De Villiers' All-time IPL XI

Overview

• AB De Villiers' all-time IPL XI featured cricket's biggest stars like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah
• It also featured some great bowlers like Lasith Malinga, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Daniel Vettori
• In total, De Villiers' team comprised five players who played for MI, four of them who played for RCB, and a couple of them who played for CSK

AB De Villiers' all-time IPL XI featured cricket's biggest stars like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah. It also featured some great bowlers like Lasith Malinga, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Daniel Vettori. In total, De Villiers' team comprised five players who played for MI, four of them who played for RCB, and a couple of them who played for CSK.

AB De Villiers appeared in Subhankar Mishra's show, where he revealed his All-time IPL XI. De Villiers' openers are Rohit Sharma and Matthew Hayden, while the batting unit after them consisted of legendary players like Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, and De Villiers himself, along with an All-rounder in Hardik Pandya.

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The wicketkeeper batter in the South African player's team is MS Dhoni. His bowling unit consists of quality pacers like Jasprit Bumrah and Lasith Malinga, while his spin bowlers are Yuzvendra Chahal and Daniel Vettori. The decision to go behind Vettori has raised a lot of eyebrows, given the league had many other quality spinners.

"Jasprit Bumrah never troubled me too much, luckily," - Ab De Villiers

In his interview, de Villiers was also asked about Jasprit Bumrah. The former RCB star regarded him as one of the greatest bowlers he had ever played against. He was glad that Bumrah could not trouble him a lot. "Jasprit Bumrah is one of the greatest bowlers I've ever played against. He never troubled me too much, luckily," said de Villiers in the show.

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AB De Villiers' all-time IPL XI: Rohit Sharma, Matthew Hayden, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, AB De Villiers, Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lasith Malinga, and Daniel Vettori.