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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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.

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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.

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By - 07 Nov, 2020

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