AB de Villiers IPL 2022 Team, Retirement, Highest Score, Career

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.

IPL 2022 Stats
Most Runs in IPL	Hat trick in IPL
Most Wickets in IPL	Highest score in IPL
Highest Strike Rate in IPL	Highest partnership in IPL
Most centuries in IPL	Highest paid player in IPL
Most sixes in IPL	Best bowling figures in IPL