5 speeches in cricket which were more than just words

AB de Villiers after losing to New Zealand in the World Cup 2015

All through the conference, De Villiers kept wiping his tears.

From tears in the eyes to a cracked voice, millions of hearts broke when AB de Villiers addressed the media after being knocked down in a World Cup encounter yet another time. All through the conference, De Villiers kept wiping his tears.

His hopes for the World title were crushed and his emotions were raw. When asked if that was the worst he had felt on the field, he answered with a single syllable, “Yes”. The one-word answer spoke more articulately than any of his other responses.

With a lump in the throat, he later said, “Lots of people back home were supporting us. We think of all of them, and it’s so bad. We wanted to take that trophy back home, but life moves on, the sun will come up tomorrow”.

With the exhibition of such strong emotions from our favourite cricketers, how can we consider cricket as just a battle between the bat and the ball?

It is much beyond that.