IPL 2020: Boria Majumdar blames AB de Villiers for RCB's exit; faces wrath of fans

Majumdar felt De Villiers should have won RCB a tournament if he was a match-winner.

By - 07 Nov, 2020

AB de Villiers | IANS ( FILE PIC)

AB de Villiers turned up as the best batsman for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in IPL 2020. He is the third-highest scorer in the team, only 19 behind the top scorer Devdutt Padikkal. But when you see the combination of runs, average, and strike-rate, De Villiers is ahead of Devdutt and Virat Kohli.

While De Villiers has scored 454 runs with a strike-rate of 158.74, Devdutt managed 473 with a strike-rate of just 124.80, and Kohli striking at 121.35 for his 466 runs. But when RCB was criticized after getting knocked out of IPL 2020, Boria Majumdar, a senior sports journalist, slammed the South African batsman.

Boria refused to call De Villiers a match-winner and said he couldn't make RCB win a single title despite being with the franchise for 10 years. It was unfair of him to target the 36-year-old. His comments infuriated the fans on social media and he was lambasted by the fans.

Boria Going bang bang on AB Devilliers ???????? pic.twitter.com/eLs6Y3xqM2
— Just a Fan (@iemRahul_) November 7, 2020

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Even in the Eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday, De Villiers stood alone and smashed a half-century, but he couldn't finish the innings. Eventually, SRH won the match by 6 wickets.

Here are the reactions from fans:

But he has a PhD..... ????????‍♀️
— Alyssa Healy (@ahealy77) November 7, 2020

Never seen anyone miss the point more shockingly than this. ‘How many games has AB de Villiers won for RCB’
He has single-handedly won them 3 games this season alone. But for AB, RCB wouldn’t have made the playoffs. The team has its problems, but AB isn’t one of them! https://t.co/TK8dG1uMx7
— Raunak Kapoor (@RaunakRK) November 7, 2020

Absolute rubbish from @BoriaMajumdar . ABD gave a strong fight yesterday. Why not criticize Virat for choking? Oh you are afraid it seems. You don't expect such nonsense from a senior sports journalist. In this stunt to push @SportsTodayofc he has made a mockery of himself ????????‍♂️. https://t.co/lu7HAvHhKG
— Midhun M Menon (@Mid_On_) November 7, 2020

So Darren Sammy is the Greatest player of all time, as he won two T20 worldcups. Nice Logic you dumbshit. @BoriaMajumdar https://t.co/yeC0C8H9P4
— Daksh ☃️ (@aarav___) November 7, 2020

Look at ABDevilliers stats he scored in every WORLDCUP , IPL & in all big tournaments but if his team cannot win matches he can do nothing because he is not a god who will alone do everything.
A Single man alone cannot win you worldcup or IPL or any big tournament @BoriaMajumdar https://t.co/Ahjg2qUhXq pic.twitter.com/UlF3u5rtrk
— ???????????????????? (@oyehappy) November 7, 2020

Had AB de Villiers not scored a half-century and got out early, the record of 49 would've been broken for sure last night. https://t.co/3iGa4svOS7
— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) November 7, 2020

Oh man cricket's a team game.they really understand this or just blindly crictize a particular player for popularity.
So if India had not won 2011 world cup ,sachin is another average player?

What a pathetic take.@BoriaMajumdar https://t.co/UJfy7eWLGk
— Dheena (@Dheena0107) November 7, 2020

Wtf, So much criticism for ABD for scoring 56(43) on a dicey pitch with no help at all from any other batsman. This looks more like a gossip about the match rather than post match analsysis. Smh. #Cricket https://t.co/XbEBPLOnBD
— Mayur Ade (@MayurAde24) November 7, 2020

Ye dekh be Phd patrakar @BoriaMajumdar. Only Batsman to be in top 5 run scorers of Odi and t20 WC. Sharam nahi ati bolte huye its because of him SA and RCB hasn't won anything. Dalle https://t.co/WxJqjpouXU pic.twitter.com/B1wgAUsdFp
— Prithvi (@The_BeardMan_) November 7, 2020

What more ABD has to do now????
I guess he should have bowled teh last over like Virat did in World T20 right? https://t.co/54ABhnA9bC
— Harshad ???????? (@HBJ3221) November 7, 2020

This is terrible from a experienced journalist. How can you blame one player to win tournaments, then cricket should not be played between 22 players. No player has over 125 sr in RCB apart from AB in IPL 2020. These things are just basic logic but targeting one player.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 7, 2020

And this guy supposedly has an "Oxford PhD" in cricket lmfao ????
— . (@paceandbounce_) November 7, 2020

IPL 2020: Boria Majumdar blames AB de Villiers for RCB's exit; faces wrath of fans

Majumdar felt De Villiers should have won RCB a tournament if he was a match-winner.

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