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AB de Villiers Test record against Australia

2005-12-16 – 2018-03-30 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 24 Test matches against Australia with recorded batting or bowling figures: 45 batting innings and 1 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting452,0684051.7049.84
Bowling1120N/AN/A

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 12.00 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 6.

Batting milestones in this sample: 6 centuries and 13 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 4,149.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 2005149 runs
  2. 2006130 runs
  3. 2008176 runs
  4. 2009424 runs
  5. 2011145 runs
  6. 2012276 runs
  7. 2014341 runs
  8. 2018427 runs
Exact yearly figures · 8 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
20184842712671.1665.191460465500N/AN/AN/A
20143634111656.8344.051142377400N/AN/AN/A
20123627616955.2043.871031362900N/AN/AN/A
2011231457348.3359.910223124200N/AN/AN/A
20094742416370.6653.602239879100N/AN/AN/A
20082317610688.0047.951116136700N/AN/AN/A
2006481305016.2538.230114034010N/A12.00N/A
2005241496837.2542.450222035100N/AN/AN/A

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home15281,39755.8854.0610N/A
Away91767144.7342.8700N/A
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v Australia · WACA Ground

  2. First century in this archive · 106 runs

    Test v Australia · WACA Ground

  3. Highest recorded innings · 169 runs

    Test v Australia · WACA Ground

  4. Latest available scorecard

    Test v Australia · The Wanderers Stadium

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2018-03-30The Wanderers Stadium365--
2018-03-30The Wanderers Stadium169119--
2018-03-22Newlands363136--
2018-03-22Newlands16495--
2018-03-09St George's Park42826--
2018-03-09St George's Park2126146--
2018-03-01Kingsmead401--
2018-03-01Kingsmead271127--
2014-03-01Newlands443228--
2014-03-01Newlands21437--
2014-02-20St George's Park32939--
2014-02-20St George's Park1116232--
2014-02-12SuperSport Park44890--
2014-02-12SuperSport Park291148--
2012-11-30WACA Ground3169184--
2012-11-30WACA Ground1412--
2012-11-22Adelaide Oval433220--
2012-11-22Adelaide Oval2115--
2012-11-09Brisbane Cricket Ground329114--
2012-11-09Brisbane Cricket Ground14084--

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.