AB De Villiers played a big role in South Africa Champions winning the World Championship of Legends, beating Pakistan Champions in the final.
ABD scored an unbeaten 120 runs off 60 balls in the final, hitting 12 fours and 7 sixes. Across the tournament, he finished with 432 runs at an average of almost 145 and a strike rate of over 220.
His impact in the tournament can be established by the fact that no other batter in the tournament scored above 200 runs. AB De Villiers scored three centuries in the tournament. He scored centuries against Australia and England in the league stage and against Pakistan champions in the WCL 2025 final.
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Dale Steyn On AB De Villiers
Despite retiring from international cricket just before the 2019 World Cup, ABD still has a lot left in him as a cricketer. Former South African legendary pacer Dale Steyn also echoed the same sentiments in his recent tweet on De Villiers.
Through his tweet, he took a dig at several current international players playing in the IPL and said that ABD is still better than most of them.
“Unpopular/Popular opinion. Ab is still better than half the internationals at IPL. Maybe even more” Steyn wrote in his tweet.
Steyn, who last played in the IPL in 2021, played with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for over a decade. He joined the team’s celebrations after they won their maiden IPL title earlier this year. He has scored 5162 runs in 170 matches at an average of 39.7 and strike rate of 151.6. Steyn believes that he still can play in the IPL better than most of the regular international cricketers.
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ABD's International Career In Numbers
ABD had a glorified international career as well as he scored 8675 Test runs, 9577 ODI runs and nearly 1700 T20I runs for South Africa. He led the side to the 2015 World Cup semi-final as well but they lost out to the Kiwis in the knockout contest.
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