• AB de Villiers stats pack

    With AB de Villiers about to make his 100th Test appearance for South Africa on Saturday, we take a look at how he compares to other Proteas greats in the five-day format.

    * denotes still active

    MOST TESTS
    165 Jacques Kallis
    146 Mark Boucher
    116 Graeme Smith
    108 Shaun Pollock
    101 Gary Kirsten, Makhaya Ntini
    *99 AB de Villiers

    MOST RUNS
    13 206 Jacques Kallis
    9 253 Graeme Smith
    *7 685 AB de Villiers
    7 289 Gary Kirsten
    *6 813 Hashim Amla
    6 167 Herschelle Gibbs
    5 498 Mark Boucher

    HIGHEST SCORES
    *311no Hashim Amla
    *278no AB de Villiers
    277 Graeme Smith
    275no Daryll Cullinan
    275 Gary Kirsten
    274 Graeme Pollock
    259 Graeme Smith

    HIGHEST AVERAGE
    60.97 Graeme Pollock
    55.25 Jacques Kallis
    53.81 Dudley Nourse
    *52.00 Hashim Amla
    *51.92 AB de Villiers
    49.08 Colin Bland
    48.88 Bruce Mitchell
    48.70 Graeme Smith
    *48.25 Faf du Plessis

    MOST HUNDREDS
    45 Jacques Kallis
    27 Graeme Smith
    *23 Hashim Amla
    *21 AB de Villiers
    21 Gary Kirsten
    14 Daryll Cullinan, Herschelle Gibbs
    11 Ashwell Prince

    MOST FIFTIES (AND OVER)
    103 Jacques Kallis
    65 Graeme Smith
    *58 AB de Villiers
    55 Gary Kirsten
    *51 Hashim Amla
    40 Herschelle Gibbs, Mark Boucher
    34 Daryll Cullinan
    29 Bruce Mitchell, Hansie Cronje

    MOST DUCKS
    21 Makhaya Ntini
    17 Allan Donald
    16 Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis
    15 Morne Morkel
    13 Gary Kirsten
    *12 Dale Steyn
    11 Andre Nel, Roy McLean, Hansie Cronje, Herschelle Gibbs
    10 Daryll Cullinan, Graeme Smith

    Also: *3 AB de Villiers

    DID YOU KNOW?
    AB de Villiers has taken two Test wickets at an average of 52.00. He picked up 2-49 against West Indies in Antigua in 2005. The West Indies totalled 747 all out in reply to South Africa’s first innings of 588-6 dec (De Villiers opened the batting and scored 114 in an opening stand of 245 with Graeme Smith).

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