AB de Villiers does not like to struggle on bad wicket: Daryll Cullinan

Daryll Cullinan also called AB de Villiers freakish.

Former South African batsman Daryll Cullinan has called master batsman AB de Villiers as freakish. He also said he is a kind of batsman who does not likes to struggle on a bad batting wicket. According to Cullinan, de Villiers is an excellent batsman but is not a good bad-wicket player. He prefers playing on good batting pitches. Cullinan added in Test cricket there are many batsmen who are very good at playing on wickets which are not conducive to batting but de Villiers is a type of batsman who is not very happy when he is not able to score runs or is struggling on such tracks. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: South Africa vs England , 5th ODI match, South Africa vs England, 2015-16

In a conversation with Cricbuzz he said, “AB de Villiers is a freakish player. I was the first batsman in the world who gave up 50-overs cricket, purposely, to play Test cricket. I struggled because in One-Day cricket you’re playing balls that you leave alone in Test cricket. You’re attacking different lengths. In one-Day cricket, you’re quickly getting to this side of the ball, that side of the ball and the difficult thing is that when they get to T20, you play this way and that way and then you get to four or five day cricket, which is also a different mindset. The challenges are great.”   READ: AB de Villiers says he is committed to South African national team as he signs up Barbados Tridents in CPL

Cullinan also said that India is lucky to have Rahul Dravid as their Under-19 coach, “This is where we need to make a call. It requires a very strict eye from coaches and India are very fortunate they have Rahul (Dravid). We spoke after the Irish game and we shared very briefly, these same thoughts. It was really nice to hear a guy like that emphasize the belief that I have.”

Talking of Kagiso Rabada, Cullinan said, “Yes, he’s hugely exciting. I think, at the moment, in South Africa there’s so much talk about transformation, and getting black cricketers through. He couldn’t have come at a better time. But again, he’s 20, he has got to fill out. He’s a man in a young man’s body. If he stays fit… and he can bat, I honestly think he can bat. I mentioned it in South Africa that even he knows that he is taken seriously because that sort of a guy could bat at no. 7 in Test cricket.”