AB de Villiers IPL 2022 Team, Retirement, Highest Score, Career
Published on: Mar 21, 2022 5:22 pm IST|Updated on: Jun 8, 2022 11:19 am IST
AB de Villiers IPL 2022 Team – One of the most complete batsmen in modern day cricket history, AB de Villiers has done everything with the bat in Indian Premier League.
Mr 360 has represented only two teams in IPL history, namely Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore. He played for Delhi Daredevils from 2008 to 2010 and then was picked by RCB ahead of 2011 and played for RCB from 2011 to 2021.
AB de Villiers IPL 2022 Team
The former South African captain announced that he is retiring from all the forms of cricket after the 2nd leg of IPL in UAE in 2021. The fans wont be able to see the superman AB de Villiers in action anymore on the cricket field. It is fair to say that it is the end of an era.
AB de Villiers IPL stats
Being a middle order batsman is the most difficult role in T20. It requires extreme versatility to have numbers like what AB de Villiers has. He could literally smash all types of bowling which almost no batsmen is capable of. Every batsmen in the history of the game had some flaws one way or the other and then there is AB de Villiers who had no glitch in his batting
| Matches | Runs | Average | Strike rate | 50s | 100s |
| 184 | 5162 | 39 | 151 | 40 | 3 |
AB de Villiers stats vs pace in IPL
| Year | Innings | Runs | Average | Strike rate |
| 2008 | 6 | 68 | 13 | 94 |
| 2009 | 12 | 241 | 48 | 136 |
| 2010 | 6 | 71 | 35 | 87 |
| 2011 | 12 | 178 | 35 | 145 |
| 2012 | 13 | 243 | 40 | 178 |
| 2013 | 14 | 299 | 33 | 184 |
| 2014 | 12 | 262 | 29 | 179 |
| 2015 | 13 | 355 | 50 | 167 |
| 2016 | 14 | 397 | 56 | 176 |
| 2017 | 9 | 161 | 53 | 145 |
| 2018 | 10 | 247 | 123 | 194 |
| 2019 | 12 | 307 | 76 | 183 |
| 2020 | 14 | 313 | 39 | 193 |
| 2021 | 10 | 214 | 42 | 165 |
| Total | 157 | 3356 | 43 | 165 |
These numbers surely make you doubt that AB de Villiers is not a normal human to play cricket. He is a special cricketer for a reason.
His IPL career numbers against spin are extraordinary as well.
| IPL Innings vs spin | Runs | Average | Strike rate |
| 131 | 1806 | 34 | 131 |
AB de Villiers boast most Man of the Match in IPL record
AB de Villiers holds the record for most man of the match in IPL history. He has bagged 25 awards in 184 games. The second highest is Chris Gayle with 22 awards. He is a high impact player and makes sure that when he gets a big score, his team is ending up on the winning side.
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