AB De Villiers some intresting facts

AB DE VILLIERS

Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African cricketer, who captains the South African One Day International (ODI) team, having succeeded Graeme Smith after the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
Widely regarded as the best batsman in the world at present,De Villiers dominated the top of the ICC Test batting rankings in 2014, along with Kumar Sangakkara. As of January 2015, he is ranked second in the ICC Test and first in the ODI batting rankings.
The son of Dr Abraham P de Villiers, he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. De Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who, in a very short space of time, has accumulated many runs in Tests including 16 centuries and 32 fifties. He still holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck (78), before being dismissed for nought against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman in an innings, with 278*. Until 2012, he was an occasional wicket-keeper for South Africa, although since the retirement of regular Test keeper Mark Boucher and under his own ODI captaincy he has started to regularly keep wicket for the national side in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, but then decided to give up wicketkeeping after the debut of Quinton de Kock, and started becoming a part-time bowler.
He holds the record for the fastest 50(16 balls), 100(31 balls) and 150(64 balls) in One Day Internationals. On 18 January 2015, AB de Villiers smashed the fastest century in ODI history, breaking New Zealand's Corey Anderson's record, reaching 100 off just 31 balls and going on to score 149 runs off just 44 balls against the West Indies.

 


In life, we think we know many things, many people and many things about those many people especially when it comes to our favorite Celebrity stars or sportsmen. But often there are things we miss out some very interesting facts as they get overshadowed by their other sporting credentials.
It is the same with South Africa’s AB de Villiers. We all know him as a great batsman, a brilliant wicket-keeper and terrific cricketer overall who can do almost anything including scoring the fastest ODI Century and the fastest half-century ODI from South Africa and playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL but there are few very interesting and unknown facts about AB de Villiers.

HERE'S A LIST OF THE TOP-10 MOST INTERESTING AND UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT AB DE VILLIERS –

1. AB de Villiers was shortlisted for Junior National Hockey squad.

2. He was shortlisted for Junior National Football squad.
3. AB de Villiers captained the South Africa Junior Rugby side.
4. He held six South African school swimming records.
5. He was the fastest 100-meter time in South Africa Junior Athletics.
6. AB was a member of South Africa Junior Davis Cup Tennis Team.
7. He was a National Badminton U-19 Champion.
8. De Villiers has a Golf handicap of scratch.
(And you might be wondering he could do all this because he was not as good in studies as he was in sports then here is the twist)
9. Received a national medal from Mandela for a science project.
10. In 2010, AB de Villiers collaborated with South African Ampie Du Preez for his their debut music album named “Maak Jou Drome Waar” (Make Your Dreams Come True)