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AB de Villiers
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“I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest, I’ve always been that kind of personality.”
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“When I became captain of the Proteas, things changed a bit.”
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“But I’ve always enjoyed having some personal time away from the game.”
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“Those are the kinds of things I really enjoy.”
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“But I truly believe that players who tell you they don’t feel the pressure of international cricket, being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves”
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“It’s been unbearable at times: the pressure you have to face, performing day in and day out.”
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“The expectations that you put on yourself, from fans, from the country, from coaches. It is huge, and it’s something that’s on your mind all the time as a cricketer.”
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“And it’s definitely something that I’m not going to miss. I’m very happy to have stepped away. Absolutely no regrets”
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“I feel there is room for players to be more honest about it, having systems in place to make sure they keep fresh and mentally healthy.”
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“I was certainly not mentally ill at the time, but I can relate to the fact that pressure can really drive you down, and make you so tired.”
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“I know nothing will compare to that feeling of scoring hundreds in a big game,Thousands of people chanting your name. But in all fairness, I don’t miss it. Not yet. Maybe a year down the line.”
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“I’m still going to play for a few years; I’ll still play a little bit around the world. But on my own terms.”
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Recorded in: What AB de Villiers did next: One of cricket’s great superstars on the ‘unbearable’ pressures and his new life, August 2018, The INDEPENDENT by Jonathan Lewis
“I try and make sure that I see the ball coming out of the bowler’s hands, and then my technique and my body take over.”
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“I clear my mind, and see the ball out of the bowler’s hand - that’s all I think about in all three of the formats”
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“Lots of guys have played a part in helping me, but ultimately I educated through the hardships myself”
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“I went through the bad form myself. And I can mention 200 people who have had an influence on my career and my batting. I literally can. I can name all of them”
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“Significantly, in the team, Kallis, because our techniques are similar. He helped me a little bit sometimes.”
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“Boucher. I am not going to start because I might end up literally mentioning a lot of people. Every single guy somewhere along the line played a part in helping me with my career. Not only in my batting but a lot of other stuff.”
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“Once again, the advice I give any youngster coming through and talking to me is to learn himself.”
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“Understanding my strengths and weaknesses has been the biggest thing. I didn't understand these kinds of things when I came into international cricket.”
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“My technique and my talent have always been there, and just understanding what kind of shots I can play on different wickets.”
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“Getting to know my own game has been the biggest thing. Some guys take longer to know their own game. Some guys pick it up very quickly.”
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“Two thousand and eight. That's when I started to develop my defensive game. It became a lot more difficult to get me out.”
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“That's been key to me.”
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“I don't think there were too many things I didn't know about. A lot of things came naturally to me”
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“. I learnt my defensive game in 2008. That was new to me. Before that I played for four and a half, five years without knowing exactly what was going on.”
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“Still, having the ability, the talent, to clear the boundary when I needed to, playing with a very competitive edge, loved winning from a very young age.”
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“I understood how teams worked from the word go, and a lot of things I did know, except for my strengths and weaknesses as a batsman”
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“I felt it was difficult to keep me from scoring, but it was easy to get me out because eventually I would make a mistake because of my attacking nature.”
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“So just having that hunger to eliminate those kind of weaknesses”
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“I was getting out lbw a lot. I think people still try it these days, but I think I am a lot better now.”
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“I think in 2005, Mark Boucher approached me and he told me that a lot of teams were going to try to get me out lbw because they feel I am weak straight.”
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“He planted a little seed in my head that defensively I am not very good. All it takes is to bowl straight at me for long periods of time and I will get out.”
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“So I wanted to eliminate that, and I had the hunger to turn that around.”
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“When you get to know your own game really well, things happen a little slower. Pressure situations don't fly past you.”
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“You have more time to make good decisions.”
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“Just hard work, I think. Lots of hours of practice. Hunger.”
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“The desire to turn it around. It was never part of my game before, to play a ball late and to block it.”
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“I always wanted to either look to score a boundary or come down really hard at the ball”
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“But if you want something in life and you go after it, you tend to get closer to it than you think you can”
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“Before I knew it, in 2008, I was playing in Ahmedabad, in a Test match, and that's when I played the late defensive shot for the first time in my life.”
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“What I discovered about my batting in 2008 was monumental and integral to my batting career.”
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“My motto would be, if I bat through I would come close anyway. I know how to score my runs without taking too many risks.”
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“Similar to what we did against India at the Wanderers.”
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“There is always a time when the bowlers start feeling a bit of pressure, the momentum turns around”
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“It was difficult but we knew it was possible for us to bat through. The thing about the Wanderers is, it is difficult to stop runs.”
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“Knowing that we just needed to bat time, it showed we kept scoring without really trying too much”
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“My mindset in all three formats, in any situation, is exactly the same.”
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“I just want to get myself in, get myself a nice foundation to hopefully attack and dominate the bowlers.”
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“After a period what I call - let's say a period when you have got to earn the right to dominate the bowling.”
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