African Sports Monthly Mar, 2015 | Page 74

As the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup rages on in Australia and New Zealand We take an in-depth look at the players who are representing South Africa. The highlighted Figures on their stats do not include those of the Proteas last ODI series against the West Indies whom they played before the start of the world cup. . AB de Villiers (Captain) Age: 30 Role: Batsman, wicketkeeper ODIs: 175 Runs: 7 210 Average: 51 .5 Dismissals: 88 Made his debut against England in 2004 as an opening batsman . He was also used in the middleorder and kept wicket in the same season. He and Hashim Amla briefly held the ODI third wicket all time partnership record of 238, established against Pakistan in 2013 . He is also the joint second fastest batsman in the history of the game to score 6 000 ODI runs . Title of the book