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Abraham Benjamin De Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African cricketer, who captains the South African One Day International (ODI) team,having succeeded Graeme Smith after the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He is also part of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. As of march 2014 he is ranked 1st in the Test batting rankings and 1st in the ODI batting ranking
AB de Villiers scored the seventh fastest century in ODI cricket, in 58 balls, when he slammed an unbeaten 102 off just 59 balls against India in Ahmedabad in February 2010. He reached the top of the Test batting rankings in March 2012. In December 2013, De Villiers became the ninth batsmen in history to top the batting rankings in both tests and ODIs.
De Villiers became the second youngest and second fastest South African to reach 1000 test runs after Graeme Pollock and in his test career so far has batted, bowled and kept wicket as well. He is a talented sportsman and has excelled in golf (playing off scratch despite playing infrequently[4]), rugby, cricket and tennis. However, he chose to pursue a career in cricket and, after a spell in the South Africa U19 team, he made his debut for the Titans in 2003/4. He also played for Carrickfergus Cricket Club in Northern Ireland as their overseas player in 200.jpg)
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