AB de Villiers

South Africa·Wicketkeeper·Age 42

Right-hand bat · Right-arm fast medium

IPL runs: 5,162
Average: 39.71
Strike rate: 151.7
Highest: 133

Career

AB de Villiers earned the nickname Mr 360 by making the field behind the wicket scoreable. He played the ramp, the reverse sweep and the switch-hit against genuine pace at a time when most batters treated those areas as dead ground, and he did it without abandoning a technique sound enough to bat for a day and a half to save a Test.

That range is what made him unusual: the same player held the record for the fastest fifty, hundred and 150 in One Day International cricket, and also batted 220 balls for 43 to draw a Test in Adelaide. He kept wicket for long stretches to balance South Africa's side, and retired from international cricket in 2018 while still among the best in the world.

Highlights

Held the records for the fastest ODI fifty, century and 150 simultaneously
Batted 220 deliveries for 43 to save the Adelaide Test in 2012
Kept wicket across formats to balance the South Africa side
Long-serving batter for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL

Overview

What the figures show

Fourteen IPL seasons, from 2008 to 2021, stand behind AB de Villiers's 5,162 runs in the competition. Ranked by runs, 2016 sits on top with 687 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and nothing else comes within 174. 133 in 2015 remains the biggest single innings of it. Fifty has been passed 43 times, three of those going on to hundreds. That strike rate of 151.7 is 16.3 above the 135.37 median for the 182 batters with 300 or more IPL balls in this data. Fours and sixes account for roughly 61% of the total — 413 and 251 of them.

The seasons break into two spells: Delhi Capitals (2008–2010) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (2011–2021). Most of the runs, 4,491 of them, came in the Royal Challengers Bengaluru years.

Australia's competition adds 146 T20 runs, made in 6 matches for Brisbane Heat. The two diverge on pace: 151.7 per hundred balls in the IPL against 140.4 in the Big Bash, a gap of 11.3 the Indian way. The averages read 39.71 and 24.33.

International

Career record

Format	M	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s
Test	106	175	8,182	278*	51.78	54.8	21	42
ODI	222	213	9,435	176	53.91	101.2	25	52
T20I	75	73	1,591	79*	25.66	134.0	0	9
IPL	183	172	5,181	133*	39.85	151.9	3	40

Indian Premier League

Season by season

Season	Team	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	4s	6s
2008	DC	6	1	95	26	19.00	96.9	5	1
2009	DC	13	4	465	105	51.70	131.0	39	12
2010	DC	7	0	111	45	15.90	93.3	7	0
2011	RCB	13	4	312	65	34.70	128.4	21	14
2012	RCB	13	5	319	64	39.90	161.1	26	15
2013	RCB	14	4	360	64	36.00	164.4	34	15
2014	RCB	13	2	395	89	35.90	158.6	26	24
2015	RCB	14	3	513	133	46.60	175.1	60	22
2016	RCB	16	3	687	129	52.80	168.8	57	37
2017	RCB	9	1	216	89	27.00	132.5	12	16
2018	RCB	11	2	480	90	53.30	174.5	39	30
2019	RCB	13	3	442	82	44.20	154.0	31	26
2020	RCB	14	4	454	73	45.40	158.7	33	23
2021	RCB	14	4	313	76	31.30	148.3	23	16
Total	14 seasons	170	40	5,162	133	39.71	151.7	413	251

Big Bash League

BBL career

6 Big Bash matches. Computed from the deliveries themselves. All eight BBL clubs.

HEA

BBL batting	M	Runs	Best	Avg	SR	4s	6s
Career	6	146	71	24.33	140.4	8	6

Articles

Articles about AB de Villiers

AB de Villiers: the Widest Tempo Range in Cricket

From 31 balls at the Wanderers to 220 balls for 33 at Adelaide, the two innings that between them define his batting.

7 min read

Questions

About AB de Villiers

How many IPL runs has AB de Villiers scored?

AB de Villiers has scored 5,162 runs in the IPL across 14 seasons, averaging 39.71 at a strike rate of 151.69. The highest score is 133.

Which IPL teams has AB de Villiers played for?

AB de Villiers has appeared for Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL.

How many BBL runs has AB de Villiers scored?

AB de Villiers has scored 146 Big Bash League runs in 6 matches, averaging 24.33 at a strike rate of 140.38, with a best of 71.

Which BBL clubs has AB de Villiers played for?

AB de Villiers has appeared for Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League.

What is AB de Villiers's playing style?

AB de Villiers is a right-hand bat who bowls right-arm fast medium, listed as a wicketkeeper.

Why is AB de Villiers called Mr 360?

Because he could score all the way around the wicket, including behind him, using ramps, reverse sweeps and switch-hits against fast bowling — areas most batters leave alone.

Did AB de Villiers keep wicket?

Yes. He kept for South Africa across formats for extended periods, which allowed the side to play an extra batter or bowler.

When did AB de Villiers retire?

He retired from international cricket in May 2018, while still ranked among the world's leading batters, and continued in franchise cricket afterwards.

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How this page was worked out

Where these figures come from

Sources for this profile

IPL figures computed from ball-by-ball records of 1,243 IPL matches.
Big Bash figures computed from ball-by-ball records of men’s BBL matches.
International figures computed from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data, used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0.
Date of birth, playing style and photograph come from a third-party player feed, matched by name.

How the numbers are derived

A wide is not a ball faced; a no ball is.
Byes and leg byes are not charged to the bowler; wides and no balls are.
Six kinds of dismissal are credited to a bowler. A run out is not one of them.
An average is runs over dismissals, and is left blank rather than shown as infinite.
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