AB de Villiers

de Villiers is, for me, one of those athletes who expands what a sport can even be. Nicknamed Mr. 360 for his ability to score all around the wicket, he treated batting as improvisation rather than orthodoxy. Three ICC ODI Player of the Year awards across a fifteen-year career and a place among the Wisden cricketers of the decade confirm the numbers, but the artistry is what I love. I admire creators who refuse the textbook and invent their own, and this Pretoria-born genius did exactly that. Watching him felt less like spectating and more like witnessing problem-solving in real time.

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Name (English)

AB de Villiers

Name (Japanese)

AB・デ・ヴィリアーズ

Reading

AB・で・ゔぃりあーず

Born

February 17, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Occupation

cricketer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

• Official sitehttp://www.abdevilliers.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/abdevilliers17/
• Xhttps://x.com/ABdeVilliers17
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB%20de%20Villiers
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3011889

Tags

• Gauteng
• cricketer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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