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I'm surprised he didn't go to the WC, and I'm surprised he lasted this long too. He just seemed a little burned out by the injuries.

At least I got to see him score runs in person when he destroyed the Windies in the WC.
 
Retires with a test average above 50 from 114 matches. 22 100s, 46 50s. That's excellent. Pretty comparable on paper to someone like Michael Clarke.

Retires with an ODI average of 53.5 striking at 101 from 228 matches. 25 100s, 53 50s. That's ridiculous. Would walk into our ODI XI of all time.

Retires with an T20I average of 26 striking at 135 from 34 matches. 10 50s. Solid, but who cares about T20I?

Isn't retired, but currently has a T20 average of 35 striking at 147 from 251 matches. 3 100s and 45 50s. Will be a gun for hire for a few years and I hope a BBL team (Scorchers pls) picks him up.

Destructive batsman and more than capable keeper. Some of his ODI scores read like they are made up. 149 from 44 balls with 16 6s, 162* from 66 balls with 17 4s and 8 6s. To put that in perspective Adam Gilchrist's fastest 100 was 149 from 104 balls.

Hit a 43 ball ton in the IPL two years ago and regularly scores 50s for fun. Gun.
 

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Shattered :(

I think we can all agree that de villiers magnificence went well beyond numbers. He did things that no one else could do. And I think best of all, from a purists perspective, it wasn’t limited to mere runscoring. He played 3 amazing innings in Australia that each brought something totally different but ultimately led to 2 series wins:

- nerveless hundred under pressure in the 400 chase at Perth
- blocked for 240 balls or whatever it was at Adelaide
- absolutely annihilated the Aussies in the series decider at Perth in the next match.

Throw in his recent hundred when everyone else looked hopeless and the guy was just on another level.


And a brilliant bloke by all accounts
 
Fantastic cricketer, I feel like the last couple of years picking and choosing when he wants to play for SA taints him a little though to be honest. A bit like GAJ and his last year or 2 with GC...

Is 34 though and needs to maximise his T20 $$$ for the next couple of years, hard to blame him when he wouldn't be as well looked after financially playing for SA, although i'm sure he could walk into any job he wants in cricket going forward (with good reason)...
 
Absolute superstar. Was heading towards 10,000 test runs quite comfortably before the past couple of years. A bit of an injustice not to get there but that is sport sometimes.

Definitely one I underestimated from his early days. To be fair I don't think I was the only one he had him pegged as a middle of the pack batsmen after his first four or five years on the international scene.

In ODI cricket probably the equivalent impact to Viv Richards. When Viv retired he had the second highest average (behind Zaheer Abbas) and the second high strike rate (behind Kapil Dev). AB Retires with the highest average of all time (whilst scoring at 10 runs per 100 balls quicker then anyone who's average comes close to him) and the fifth highest strike rate of all time (whilst those scoring faster or near as fast as AB average at least 10 and usually 15 or more runs per dismissal less then AB).
 
PhatBoy said:
Shattered :(

I think we can all agree that de villiers magnificence went well beyond numbers. He did things that no one else could do.
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Ditto, and excellent sentence. My favourite batsman in world cricket.

Pretty amazing that the numbers don't do him justice when he averages 50+ striking at 100+ in ODIs.

Disappointed RCB are out of the IPL playoffs. McCullum, Kohli and ABdV is some kind of top order.
 
A real shame that we won't get to see him anymore.

One of the best I've seen, without any doubt at all.
 

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His ability to change gears while batting so quickly and maintaining his consistency for a good decade will make him the best of this generation.

Throw in he that he finishes with his test and ODI average over 50 is well deserved.

He can defend for hours without breaking a sweat. He faced 240 odd balls with Faf in that famous Adelaide test and did not hit one boundary.

Then can slog a 100 of like 50 balls.

The only time i got to see him live was the 2015 world cup at the SCG against the west indies where he smashed 162 off like 60 balls and his last 80 come off the last 4-5 overs. And hit a boundary or 6 at every area in the ground. That remains the greatest bit of striking i have seen live.
 
thought he had already tried to retire or at least partly from test cricket anyhow..

yeah it is a disappointing day and there is not many anywhere who are going to catch his shadow.
 
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Watched it when I was living with 6 of my best mates in a pisshead mansion. Spent 3.5 hours just copping shit left right and centre
Spent the next two days giving it back
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Watched our inns with my mum , **** how we laughed.
Best moment was them showing the saffer mascot sitting over the back of the stands with his head in his hands.

Mum went to bed and i remarked " If we lose this i'll eat the tv !! "

Woke her at like 4am , her response was " OH CUT IT OUTTTTT !!! "
 

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Watched our inns with my mum , **** how we laughed.
Best moment was them showing the saffer mascot sitting over the back of the stands with his head in his hands.

Mum went to bed and i remarked " If we lose this i'll eat the tv !! "

Woke her at like 4am , her response was " OH CUT IT OUTTTTT !!! "
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Hahahahaha mint. That was one of those ‘I’ll just watch two more overs’ games but every two overs would bring another 18-20 runs.
 
BStaff17 said:
His ability to change gears while batting so quickly and maintaining his consistency for a good decade will make him the best of this generation.

Throw in he that he finishes with his test and ODI average over 50 is well deserved.

He can defend for hours without breaking a sweat. He faced 240 odd balls with Faf in that famous Adelaide test and did not hit one boundary.

Then can slog a 100 of like 50 balls.

The only time i got to see him live was the 2015 world cup at the SCG against the west indies where he smashed 162 off like 60 balls and his last 80 come off the last 4-5 overs. And hit a boundary or 6 at every area in the ground. That remains the greatest bit of striking i have seen live.
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Try and tell Ian Chappell or most Australian batsmen this century that it’s alright to block out for a draw! They’ll tell you that you’ll get out doing that. What about the fact that they get out going on the attack?
 
BStaff17 said:
His ability to change gears while batting so quickly and maintaining his consistency for a good decade will make him the best of this generation.

Throw in he that he finishes with his test and ODI average over 50 is well deserved.

He can defend for hours without breaking a sweat. He faced 240 odd balls with Faf in that famous Adelaide test and did not hit one boundary.

Then can slog a 100 of like 50 balls.

The only time i got to see him live was the 2015 world cup at the SCG against the west indies where he smashed 162 off like 60 balls and his last 80 come off the last 4-5 overs. And hit a boundary or 6 at every area in the ground. That remains the greatest bit of striking i have seen live.
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He broke Peter Siddle in that Adelaide Test. I sent an email to my South African cousin yesterday saying that it was ironic that I remember one of the most destructive batsmen of his generation for an innings that was more Trevor Bailey than ABD.
 
Saw this on fb

AB de Villiers was shortlisted for South Africa's junior national hockey and football team, captain of South Africa's junior national rugby team, holds six South African school swimming records and the fastest 100m time in South Africa's junior athletics. He was also U19 national badminton champion, a member of South Africa's junior Davis Cup tennis team and received a medal from Nelson Mandela for a science project. He scored 20,014 runs in international cricket with 47 centuries and 109 fifties, and holds the record for the world's fastest ODI 50, 100 and 150, and the fastest Test century ever by a South African. He also has a golf handicap of scratch.
 
As a cricket fan, his retirement is sad because he's an absolute freak of a cricketer.


As an Australian cricket fan, his retirement is a relief because he's an absolute freak of a cricketer and he plays for South Africa.
 

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