List of international cricket centuries by AB de Villiers

A portrait of AB de Villiers
De Villiers has scored 45 centuries for South Africa.

Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (more commonly known as AB de Villiers) is a South African cricketer and captain of the South African One Day International (ODI) team.[1] A right-handed batsman–wicket-keeper, he has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) on 21 occasions in Test and 24 occasions in ODI. He reached the top of the International Cricket Council Test batting rankings in March 2012.[2]

De Villiers made his Test debut in December 2004 against England, scoring 28 and 15.[3] He made his first Test century the following month, scoring 109 in the drawn fifth Test in the same series.[4] De Villiers' first double century came in April 2008 against India when he scored 217 not out in a man-of-the-match performance in Ahmedabad.[5] As of 2015, he has scored 21 Test centuries and holds the record for the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman, with 278 not out against Pakistan,[6] after Hashim Amla's 311 not out in 2012.[7] As of 2015, de Villiers is fourth in the list of Test century-makers for South Africa.[8]

De Villiers' ODI debut was in February 2005 against England, where he scored 20 in a tied match.[9] It was over two years later that he made his first ODI century in another man-of-the-match performance, scoring 146 against the West Indies in Grenada at the 2007 Cricket World Cup.[10] De Villiers' second highest score of 149 runs off 44 balls in the format came against the West Indies in Johannesburg;[1][11] he took only 31 balls to reach his century becoming the fastest batsman to reach the mark.[12][13] In the same match, De Villiers scored the fastest fifty off 16 balls, and hit 16 sixes equaling the Rohit Sharma's record for more sixes in an inning. [14] During his 22nd ODI century, de Villiers became the highest ODI century maker for South Africa, passing 21 of Herschelle Gibbs.

Making his first Twenty20 International appearance in 2006, de Villiers has yet to score a century in the format.[15] As of 2015, his highest score is 79 not out which he made in a 130-run victory over Scotland in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 tournament.[16][17] As of October 2015, de Villiers is joint eighth (with 44 centuries) alongside fellow team-mate Hashim Amla in the overall list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined.[18]

Key

Key
Symbol Meaning
* Remained not out
dagger Man of the match
double-dagger Captained the South Africa cricket team
Balls Balls faced
Pos. Position in the batting order
Inn. The innings of the match
Test The number of the Test match played in that series
S/R Strike rate during the innings
H/A/N Venue was at home (South Africa), away or neutral
Date Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches
Lost The match was lost by South Africa.
Won The match was won by South Africa.
Drawn The match was drawn.
(D/L) The result was determined by the Duckworth–Lewis method.

Test centuries

List of Test centuries scored by AB de Villiers
No. Score Against Pos. Inn. Test Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 109 dagger  England 1 3 5/5 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home 21 January 2005 Drawn [4]
2 178  West Indies 2 2 3/4 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown Away 21 April 2005 Won [19]
3 114  West Indies 1 1 4/4 Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's Away 29 April 2005 Drawn [20]
4 103*  West Indies 6 2 3/3 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home 10 January 2008 Won [21]
5 217* dagger  India 6 2 2/3 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Away 3 April 2008 Won [5]
6 174  England 6 2 2/4 Headingley Stadium, Leeds Away 18 July 2008 Won [22]
7 106* dagger  Australia 5 4 1/3 WACA Ground, Perth Away 17 December 2008 Won [23]
8 104*  Australia 5 2 1/3 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 26 February 2009 Lost [24]
9 163  Australia 5 2 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home 19 March 2009 Won [25]
10 135*  West Indies 5 1 2/3 Warner Park, Basseterre Away 18 June 2010 Drawn [26]
11 278* dagger  Pakistan 5 1 2/2 Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Neutral 20 November 2010 Drawn [27]
12 129  India 5 2 1/3 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home 16 December 2010 Won [28]
13 160*  Sri Lanka 5 1 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home 3 January 2012 Won [29]
14 169  Australia 5 3 3/3 WACA Ground, Perth Away 30 November 2012 Won [30]
15 103*  Pakistan 5 3 1/3 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 3 February 2013 Won [31]
16 121  Pakistan 5 1 3/3 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home 22 February 2013 Won [32]
17 164  Pakistan 6 2 2/2 Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Neutral 23 October 2013 Won [33]
18 103  India 6 2 1/2 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 22 December 2013 Drawn [34]
19 116  Australia 5 1 2/3 St George's Park, Port Elizabeth Home 20 February 2014 Won [35]
20 152  West Indies 5 1 1/3 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home 17 December 2014 Won [36]
21 148 dagger  West Indies 5 2 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home 4 January 2015 Won [37]

One Day International centuries

List of ODI centuries scored by AB de Villiers
No. Score Balls Against Pos. Inn. S/R Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 146 dagger 130  West Indies 1 1 112.30 National Cricket Stadium, St George's Away 10 April 2007 Won [10]
2 107 dagger 89  Zimbabwe 4 1 120.22 Harare Sports Club, Harare Away 26 August 2007 Won [38]
3 103* dagger 95  Pakistan 4 1 108.42 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Away 18 October 2007 Won [39]
4 121 dagger 85  England 3 1 142.35 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home 27 November 2009 Won [40]
5 114* 101  India 5 2 112.87 Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior Away 24 February 2010 Lost [41]
6 102* dagger 59  India 4 1 172.88 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Away 27 February 2010 Won [42]
7 102 101  West Indies 4 1 100.99 Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua Away 22 May 2010 Won (D/L) [43]
8 101* 72  Zimbabwe 3 2 104.27 Senwes Park, Potchefstroom Home 17 October 2010 Won [44]
9 109 99  Zimbabwe 4 1 110.10 Willowmoore Park, Benoni Home 22 October 2010 Won [45]
10 107* dagger 105  West Indies 4 2 101.90 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Neutral 24 February 2011 Won [46]
11 134 dagger 98  Netherlands 4 1 136.73 PCA Stadium, Mohali Neutral 3 March 2011 Won [47]
12 125* double-dagger 98  Sri Lanka 4 1 127.55 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 22 January 2012 Lost [48]
13 106* daggerdouble-dagger 106  New Zealand 5 2 100.00 Westpac Stadium, Wellington Away 25 February 2012 Won [49]
14 128 daggerdouble-dagger[n 1] 108  Pakistan 2 1 118.51 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 17 March 2013 Won [50]
15 115* daggerdouble-dagger 102  Pakistan 5 1 112.74 Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah Neutral 11 November 2013 Won [51]
16 109 double-dagger 101  India 5 1 107.92 SuperSport Park, Centurion, Home 11 December 2013 No result[52]
17 108 daggerdouble-dagger 71  Sri Lanka 4 1 152.11 MRIC Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka Away 12 July 2014 Won [53]
18 136* daggerdouble-dagger 106  Australia 4 2 128.30 Harare Sports Club, Harare Neutral 27 August 2014 Won [54]
19 149 daggerdouble-dagger 44  West Indies 3 1 338.63 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home 18 January 2015 Won [11]
20 162* daggerdouble-dagger 66  West Indies 5 1 245.45 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Neutral 27 February 2015 Won [55]
21 104* daggerdouble-dagger 73  India 4 1 142.47 Green Park Stadium, Kanpur Away 11 October 2015 Won [56]
22 112 double-dagger 107  India 4 2 104.67 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Away 22 October 2015 Lost [57]
23 119 double-dagger 61  India 4 1 195.08 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Away 25 October 2015 Won [58]
24 101* daggerdouble-dagger 97  England 5 2 104.12 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home14 February 2016 Won [59]

Notes

  1. ↑ De Villiers shared the man of the match award with Hashim Amla.[50]

References

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