By Kaif
February 17, 2024
Former South African player AB de Villiers is celebrating his 40th birthday today. Explosive batting de Villiers is also known as Mr. 360.
The former RCB cricketer had announced his retirement from international cricket in 2019, so let us know about some amazing records and cricket career of AB de Villiers.
AB de Villiers is the only batsman to score the fastest fifty and century in ODI. He achieved this feat by scoring fifty in 16 balls and a century in just 31 balls.
AB de Villiers' dominance continues in Test cricket. He has the record of being out without scoring runs for 78 innings.
De Villiers is the batsman to score 150 runs in the fewest balls in ODI, he set this record in 64 balls.
AB de Villiers played 114 Tests, 228 ODIs and 78 T20 matches for South Africa. In these he scored 8765, 9577 and 1672 runs respectively.