AB de Villiers


Abraham Benjamin AB de Villiers is a South African cricketer who captains the South African Test and One Day International teams, who holds a plethora of batting records. He is widely considered as one of the best batsman of this era,in the world and is one of the greatest ever to have played the sport. He made his international debut in a Test match against England in 2004 and first played a ODI in early 2005. His debut in Twenty20 International cricket came in 2006. As of 2016, he has passed 8,000 runs in both Test and ODI cricket and has a Batting average of over fifty in both forms of the game.

De Villiers was born in a South African family of Afrikaans heritage, the son of Dr. Abraham Benjamin de Villiers, a doctor of medical sciences. He attended Afrikaanse Hor Seunskool , a public school in Pretoria. Among his schoolmates were future international cricketers Jacques Rudolph, Heino Kuhn and Francois du Plessis. As a child, de Villiers wanted to be a doctor like his father, and later regretted that he had not had the opportunity to study medicine.

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