AB de Villiers departs and leaves a Picasso-sized hole in cricket | Barney Ronay

AB de Villiers learned his craft before T20 was invented but made the game look easy, regardless of the formatIt seems odd now but English people really did used to hate Pablo Picasso, godfather of cubism and the great all-format all-rounder of 20th century art. When Picasso died in 1973 Kingsley Amis wrote in a letter to Philip Larkin: “I see Pablo the piss-poor paint-pusher has fallen off the hooks at last.” Thirty years earlier Winston Churchill is said to have expressed a willing