AB De Villiers Retires

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Not sure I have seen a more naturally gifted cricketer than AB. Outstanding bat and freakshow in the field. My favourite cricketer of the last 10 years, always played in a great spirit. Injury has got the better of him over the last few seasons and probably cost him a shot at 10,000 test runs, and certainly cost him 10,000 ODI runs. Retires with a Test and ODI average in the 50's though - not many in that league.

He should be able to make a nice earner playing T20 for a few years. Here's hoping that one of the BBL sides sign him up (Sixers I'm looking at you), be great to see him out here giving it a lash.

Has been a pleasure to watch him play.
 
Not sure I have seen a more naturally gifted cricketer than AB. Outstanding bat and freakshow in the field. My favourite cricketer of the last 10 years, always played in a great spirit. Injury has got the better of him over the last few seasons and probably cost him a shot at 10,000 test runs, and certainly cost him 10,000 ODI runs. Retires with a Test and ODI average in the 50's though - not many in that league.

He should be able to make a nice earner playing T20 for a few years. Here's hoping that one of the BBL sides sign him up (Sixers I'm looking at you), be great to see him out here giving it a lash.

Has been a pleasure to watch him play.

Agree about AB .... in my generation the best I have seen was Garfield Sobers .......
 
Once I worked out he wasn't Fanie de Villiers , I enjoyed it a lot more.

AB could play!

Best of retirement luck to him.

edit: Also, Pakistan just thumped england at lords. Didn't want to start a new thread but beating eng is always noteworthy!
 
I didn't see enough of AB to work out where to place him in my list of greats but every time I saw him playing against us I couldn't imagine how we were going to get him out. Still not sure how we usually got him out. He probably got himself out with his attacking attitude.
 
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3 3 0 48 6
4 3 1 28 6
3 2 1 10 6
4 2 2 39 4
3 2 1 28 4
3 2 1 15 4
3 2 1 14 4
2 1 1 13 4
2 1 1 6 4
3 2 1 -3 4
3 1 2 0 2
3 1 2 -5 2
3 1 2 -15 2
3 1 2 -22 2
3 1 2 -36 2
2 0 2 -56 2
3 0 3 -64 0
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