‘My Son Accidentally…’: AB De Villiers Opens Up On When He ‘Started Losing Vision’, His Sudden International Retirement

Former South Africa batter AB de Villiers is undoubtedly one of many most interesting cricketers within the historical past of the game. Making his worldwide debut in 2004, de Villiers went on to play 114 Tests, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20Is, scoring 20014 runs for the Proteas. Apart from this, the wicketkeeper-batter is broadly common for his heroics within the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore. De Villiers, who is understood by the nickname of ‘Mr 360’, introduced his retirement from worldwide in 2018 and later referred to as time on his IPL profession in 2021.

However, in a latest interplay with Wisden Cricket, de Villiers revealed the small print of an damage that affected his imaginative and prescient. He said that his son had by accident kicked him within the eye, which declined his imaginative and prescient.

“My youngster accidentally kicked me on my eye with his heel. I started really losing vision in the right eye. When I got the surgery done the doctor actually asked me, ‘How in the world did you play cricket like this?’. Luckily my left eye did a decent job for the last two years of my career,” de Villiers told Wisden Cricket.

In one other video, AB de Villiers talked about how he had a blurry imaginative and prescient in his proper eye after that damage. he went on to say that through the IPL, he would usually take a look at the scoreboard to check his eyesight.

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— AB de Villiers (@ABdeVilliers17) December 8, 2023

The former RCB star additional said that South Africa’s defeat towards New Zealand within the semi-final of 2015 ODI World Cup, left a deep impression on him. He additionally opened up concerning the challenges that he confronted through the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Covid certainly played a role, there’s no doubt about it. From an international perspective, that 2015 World Cup hurt big time. It took me a while to get over that and then, when I got back into the side and I was ready to commit, I didn’t feel the same culture that I really needed at that time,” stated de Villiers.

“I often found myself thinking, I don’t know, eh? Could this be the end of my career? I didn’t even really want to play IPL or anything else. I got away from everything in 2018 and then decided to push one more time with a bit of Test cricket, to try and beat India and Australia over here, and then I’ll call it. I didn’t want any spotlight on me. I just wanted to say, ‘I had a great time, thank you very much’,” he added.