AB de Villiers Could Keep Wickets for RCB, Reveals Simon Katich
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Former South Africa player and one of the vital cogs of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - AB de Villiers could don the keeping gloves for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2020, RCB head coach Simon Katich gave the hint on Wednesday.
Parthiv Patel and Western Australia's Joshua Philippe are the two wicket-keepers in the Virat Kohli-led RCB team.
"Obviously we've had a lot of discussions around the makeup of our team. AB has kept wickets in South Africa before so I'm sure that will be a topic for discussion. But what is the right balance in these conditions will also come into play. He's got a huge role to play for us, given the number of performances over the years for RCB and South Africa," Katich said.
He again said, "We know he's a world-class performer and he's had a fantastic tournament, where he led his team to a win in the 3TC competition. He's coming in confident on the back of that and I'm sure, knowing his love for his franchise and playing with the players at RCB, he's going to be excited by this prospect. We'll see what happens with his job behind the stumps and with the bat."
Meanwhile, the head coach has revealed that young Karnataka batsman Devdutt Padikkal could make his debut in IPL. He is one of the promising talents who have the ability to do well in future too. He has already done well in Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy victories in recent times as well.
"As a young 20-year-old batsman, the fact that he's a left-hander as well, he's obviously going to be a favourite. When it comes to the balance of the batting order you do like to break up left-hand, right-hand batting combinations so I think he's done everything possible to put his hand up and potentially make his debut in the IPL," Katich concluded.
