Former South African cricketer AB de Villiers has made an unusual request to former New Zealand player Scott Styris, asking him to avoid wearing the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) jersey. The request comes amid RCB’s struggle in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season, where they have only managed two points from seven games, placing them at the bottom of the table.
Styris, who has been seen sporting the RCB jersey on match days, is now considered a bad omen for the team. In response to Styris’ post, De Villiers commented, “Please stop wearing that shirt immediately!!!!”
However, Styris has responded to De Villiers’ request by throwing down a challenge. He declared that he would stop wearing the RCB shirt for the team’s upcoming matches if De Villiers agreed to wear a Chennai Super Kings (CSK) shirt once.
“I said I would wear the shirt. It has been a bad omen. I am a bad mascot for RCB, which is pleasing from my perspective. So I am prepared to put out a challenge back to AB de Villiers because he says it’s time for me to stop wearing the shirt. I will stop wearing the shirt for RCB matches moving forward if De Villiers wears the CSK shirt once. He is coming back for The Insiders (Jio Cinema’s programme) for the last week of the playoffs,” Styris said.
Former England captain Eoin Morgan, who was part of the show, agreed with Styris that the counter-challenge to De Villiers was ‘fair’.
RCB’s latest setback came against Sunrisers Hyderabad, who set a new IPL record for the highest total, amassing 287-3. Despite valiant efforts from Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, and Dinesh Karthik, RCB fell short by 25 runs, resulting in their sixth defeat of the season.
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