How AB surprised wife with ‘secret’ letter
Named the brand ambassador of an international pen giant, Royal Challengers Bangalore vice-captain AB de Villiers said the association stemmed from his love for writing.
“I have a few memories of writing from back in the day when I was growing up and in school. I was a bit of a romantic and the minute I could start writing, I wrote a letter to every girl that I liked in school,” De Villiers said in a light-hearted moment.
“But I was always too scared to give it to her. So I ended up climbing onto the roof of our house and hiding the letter up there. There ended up being about 27-30 letters hidden on the roof of my house at the end of my school career. All of them, I was too scared to give the girls I liked,” he continued.
As he gathered courage with age, he made better use of his writing skills.
“When I got older and married, I decided to use all that energy to write letters to my wife.
“Just the other day when she left from India to go back to South Africa, I hid a letter in her passport so that she could read it when she got to the airport.
“I got a text message from her a day or two later when she reached home saying how much that meant to her.”
De Villiers said the couple was expecting their second child in the coming months but planned on carrying on with his cricket career as long as possible with the next target being the Champions Trophy.