South African legend AB de Villiers is all set to return to cricket with the second season of the World Championship of Legends (WCL) in July 2025. He’ll lead the Sport Changers South Africa Champions within the event, which options retired and non-contracted legends of the sport.
De Villiers was final seen in motion throughout the 2021 season of the Indian Premier League, representing the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Alternatively, his final match in a South Africa shirt got here in 2018 in opposition to Australia in Johannesburg.
The 40-year-old asserted that he has been feeling the urge to play cricket once more and can hit the gymnasium quickly to arrange for the event.
“4 years in the past, I retired from all cricket as a result of I simply didn’t really feel the urge to play anymore,” AB de Villiers stated in an official assertion. “Nicely, time has handed, and my younger sons have began enjoying the sport. We’ve been enjoying increasingly more usually within the backyard, and, properly, it feels as if some type of flame has been lit once more.”
“So I’m heading again to the gymnasium and the nets, and I’ll be prepared for WCL in July,” he added.
“That is exactly why we launched the WCL” – Founding father of World Championship of Legend on AB de Villiers’ return to cricket
Harshit Tomar, the founding father of the World Championship of Legends, expressed ecstasy with AB de Villiers’ determination to affix the event. He stated that the primary intention of the event is to carry the legends, whom everybody dearly misses, again to the cricket subject.
“That is exactly why we launched the WCL – to carry again the legends we deeply miss. As a fan of AB de Villiers, I’m thrilled to see him return to the sphere. I’m certain cricket lovers in England and past will probably be delighted by his comeback,” Tomar stated within the aforementioned assertion.
Led by Yuvraj Singh, India Champions emerged because the winners of the inaugural version of the World Championship of Legends, beating the Pakistan Champions by 5 wickets in Birmingham.