IPL 2021: AB de Villiers Becomes First-Ever Player In IPL History To Bag 25 Man Of The Match Awards

IPL 2021 news: AB de Villiers scored an unbeaten 75 runs off just 42 balls against Delhi Capitals, with 3 blistering fours and 5 huge sixes. The The 37-year-old RCB legend was adjudged man of the match for this stormy innings.

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Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) attained a thrilling one-run win over Delhi Capitals in the 22nd match of IPL 2021 on Tuesday. With this victory, RCB jumped to the top of the IPL 2021 Points table. The hero of RCB's thrilling win over Delhi was the explosive RCB middle-order batsman AB de Villiers whose stormy innings powered Bangalore to a good first-innings total against Delhi Capitals. Batting first, RCB scored 171 runs for 5 wickets in their allotted 20 overs.

In reply, Delhi scored 170 runs for 4 wickets and lost the nail-biting thriller by just 1 run. De Villiers scored an unbeaten 75 runs off just 42 balls with 3 blistering fours and 5 huge sixes. The 37-year-old RCB legend was adjudged man of the match for this stormy innings. This was De Villiers' 25th Man of the Match award ever since he started his IPL career.

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AB de Villiers becomes the first player in IPL history to win 25 Man of the Match awards

The 37-year-old has become the first player in IPL history to win 25 Man of the Match awards and second overseas batsman to complete 5000 runs in the Indian Premier League. De Villiers has been part of the Bangalore-based franchise since 2011 and has played many match-winning knocks for his team. De Villiers (5,053 IPL runs) made his IPL debut with Delhi Capitals and played the first 3 seasons with the franchise. The star batsman has scored 4 thousand 382 runs for Bangalore in his IPL career.

Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper David Warner is the first overseas batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL. The Australian star player has scored 5,390 IPL runs for SRH.  Warner has also played for Delhi in the past.  He scored 1435 runs in 55 matches for Delhi.  He has been with Hyderabad since 2014.