- AB de Villiers is Also Known as Mr.360 Degree
- AB de Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who has accumulated over 8,000 runs in Tests including 22 centuries and 46 fifties. He holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck (78), before being dismissed for naught against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman, with 278 (not out). Until 2012 he was an occasional wicket-keeper for South Africa, although after the retirement of regular Test keeper Mark Boucher and under his captaincy he has started to regularly keep wicket for the national side in Tests, ODIs, and T20Is. He gave up wicket-keeping in 2015 and handed the gloves to debutant Quinton de Kock.
- He holds the records for the fastest 50 (16 balls), 100 (31 balls) and 150 (64 balls) of all time in One Day Internationals by any batsmen, and also holds the fastest hundred by a South African in Tests and the fastest 50 by South African in T20Is. He is a three-time ICC ODI player of the year, winning the award in 2010, 2014 and 2015.
- He succeeded Graeme Smith after the 2011 Cricket World Cup for the ODI captaincy and Hashim Amla after the Second Test of the England in South Africa series for the Test captaincy. He stepped down from Test captaincy in December 2016 due to an elbow injury which kept him out of the team for a long period.
- Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 114 | 191 | 18 | 8765 | 278 | 50.66 | 16076 | 54.52 | 22 | 2 | 46 | 1024 | 64 |
| ODI | 228 | 218 | 39 | 9577 | 176 | 53.5 | 9473 | 101.1 | 25 | 0 | 53 | 840 | 204 |
| T20I | 78 | 75 | 11 | 1672 | 79 | 26.12 | 1237 | 135.17 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 140 | 60 |
| IPL | 141 | 129 | 29 | 3953 | 133 | 39.53 | 2619 | 150.94 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 326 | 186 |
- Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 114 | 5 | 204 | 104 | 2 | 49/2 | 49/2 | 3.06 | 52.0 | 102.0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODI | 228 | 9 | 192 | 202 | 7 | 15/2 | 15/2 | 6.31 | 28.86 | 27.43 | 0 | 0 |
- Career Information
Test debut
vs England at St George's Park, Dec 17, 2004
Last Test
vs Australia at New Wanderers Stadium, Mar 30, 2018
ODI debut
vs England at Mangaung Oval, Feb 02, 2005
Last ODI
vs India at SuperSport Park, Feb 16, 2018
T20 debut
vs Australia at The Wanderers Stadium, Feb 24, 2006
Last T20
vs Bangladesh at Senwes Park, Oct 29, 2017
IPL debut
vs Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium, May 02, 2008
Last IPL
vs Rajasthan Royals at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, May 19, 2018
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