African fieldsmen, "You guys are history". Malcolm took 9 for 57 in South Africa's second innings, the sixth best bowling figures in Test history to that time, and England went on to win by 8 wickets. 1994–95 was an outstanding season for De Villiers. In five Tests, he took 36 wickets averaging 17.47. In the Test against Pakistan in Johannesburg, De Villiers became the first ever South African to score a fifty and take ten wickets in the same Test, scoring 66 not out and taking 6 for 81 and 4 for 27. He was subsequently named the South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year in 1995, an award he had previously won in 1989. A popular player, De Villiers was known by the nickname Vinnige Fanie (Fast Fanie) by his Afrikaans-speaking fans. Biography De Villiers attended school at the Heidelberg Volkskool and matriculated in 1982. While there, he represented South African Schools as a javelin thrower. After cricketing career Since his retirement, De Villiers has worked as a television commentator in South Africa and also works as a corporate speaker. He was a judge in the 1995 Miss World pageant in Sun City. De Villiers has become involved in raising money for deaf charities as he has both a brother and a daughter who are deaf. He raised R800 000 cycling from Cape Town to Pretoria and R189 000 sitting at the top of a floodlight tower at a Test match in Centurion. De Villiers' role in identifying ball tampering scandal During the third test match of a four-match series between South Africa and Australia in 2018, De Villiers, who served as one of the commentators for the match, helped to expose that Australian cricketers were tampering with the ball to get good reverse swing on the very early morning of day four of the test. De Villiers was able to detect the cheating after asking the TV camera operators to keep an eye on the Australian cricket team throughout the innings, and hinted that Australian cricketers used underhanded tactics. In 2003, Trevor Chesterfield published a biography of De Villiers entitled Fanie De Villiers: Portrait of a Test Bowler. References External links 1964 births Living people South African cricketers South Africa Test cricketers South Africa One Day International cricketers Northerns cricketers Kent cricketers Cricketers at the 1996 Cricket World Cup South African cricket commentators University of Pretoria alumni