AB de Villiers

Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African cricketer, who captains the South African Test and One Day International (ODI) teams, having 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 is widely regarded as the current best batsman in the world and one of the greatest of all time. As of January 2016, he is ranked first and seventh. in the ICC ODI and Test batting rankings respectively.

The son of Dr. Abraham Benjamin de Villiers, he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. De Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who, in a very short period of time, has accumulated many runs in Tests including 21 centuries and 36 fifties. He still holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck (78), before being dismissed for nought against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman in an innings, with 278*. Until 2012, he was an occasional wicket-keeper for South Africa, although since the retirement of regular Test keeper Mark Boucher and under his own ODI captaincy he has started to regularly keep wicket for the national side in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, but then decided to give up wicketkeeping after the debut of Quinton de Kock, and started becoming a part-time bowler. He was one of South Africa's part-time bowlers along with JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien to fill the quota of the fifth bowler in the 2015 World Cup.

De Villiers

de Villiers is a common French and Afrikaans surname. It may refer to: