Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (born 17 February 1984), is a South African cricketer. He was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times during...
Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (born 17 February 1984), is a South African cricketer. He was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times during his 15-year international career and was one of the five Wisden cricketers of the decade at the end of 2019.De Villiers began his international career as a wicket-keeper-batsman, but he has played most often solely as a batsman. He batted at various positions in the batting order, but predominantly in the middle-order. He scored over 8,000 runs in both Test and ODI cricket and is one of the very few batsmen to have a batting average of over fifty in both forms of the game. In limited overs cricket he is an attacking player. He holds the record for the fastest ODI century in just 31 balls. He also recorded the fastest ODI 50 and 150. However, in January 2020 De Villiers expressed his intention to make an international comeback and play for South Africa in the 2020 T20 World Cup.
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Quinton De Kock
Quinton de Kock (born 17 December 1992) is a South African international cricketer and current captain of the South Africa national cricket team. Play...
Quinton de Kock (born 17 December 1992) is a South African international cricketer and current captain of the South Africa national cricket team. Playing for the Titans at the domestic level and South Africa at international level. de Kock is regarded as one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen in the world. He was named the Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's 2017 Annual Awards.
An opening batsman and wicket-keeper, de Kock made his domestic debut for the Highveld Lions during the 2012/2013 season. He quickly caught the national selectors' eye when he starred in a match-winning partnership with Neil McKenzie in the Champions League T20 against the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He also finished fourth on the first-class rankings, despite playing only six of the 10 matches that summer.
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