<p>A disdain for the quickest of bowlers comes easily to him but there was a time when professing his love for a girl proved too tough for AB de Villiers.<br /><br />A shy schoolboy that he was, De Villiers would often pen his romantic thoughts on pieces of paper that would find refuge in the safer confines of his rooftop.<br /><br />At a promotional event here, De Villiers spoke about the good old school days when love letters were in vogue.<br /><br />“I am a bit of a romantic — so any girl that I fell for during school days, I would write a letter but the problem with that was I was always too scared to give it to her. I would then go back home with the letter, with a lot of love in there, and I would climb to the roof of our house and I would hide the letter there,” De Villiers fondly recollected.<br /><br />“So they ended up being around 27-30 letters there at the end of my school career. All of them I was too scared to give it to the girls,” he added.<br /><br />Now married to Danielle, the romantic at heart husband husband at times does express his thoughts through love letters.<br /><br />“Now that I am a bit older, and have finally got married, I have decided to use all that (experience) to write letters to my wife. Just the other day, when she left for South Africa, I slipped in a little handwritten note into her passport which I knew she would read, once reaching the airport.<br /><br />“I got a text message from her a day or two later when she arrived home saying how much that meant to her,” De Villiers said.</p>
<p>A disdain for the quickest of bowlers comes easily to him but there was a time when professing his love for a girl proved too tough for AB de Villiers.<br /><br />A shy schoolboy that he was, De Villiers would often pen his romantic thoughts on pieces of paper that would find refuge in the safer confines of his rooftop.<br /><br />At a promotional event here, De Villiers spoke about the good old school days when love letters were in vogue.<br /><br />“I am a bit of a romantic — so any girl that I fell for during school days, I would write a letter but the problem with that was I was always too scared to give it to her. I would then go back home with the letter, with a lot of love in there, and I would climb to the roof of our house and I would hide the letter there,” De Villiers fondly recollected.<br /><br />“So they ended up being around 27-30 letters there at the end of my school career. All of them I was too scared to give it to the girls,” he added.<br /><br />Now married to Danielle, the romantic at heart husband husband at times does express his thoughts through love letters.<br /><br />“Now that I am a bit older, and have finally got married, I have decided to use all that (experience) to write letters to my wife. Just the other day, when she left for South Africa, I slipped in a little handwritten note into her passport which I knew she would read, once reaching the airport.<br /><br />“I got a text message from her a day or two later when she arrived home saying how much that meant to her,” De Villiers said.</p>