article_snippet: , it was possible to believe that AB de Villiers was human after all.
article_snippet: All other evidence suggests the South African known as AB is some kind of super power, a man so talented in so many sports that cricket was blessed when he decided to make taking one-day batting to another, exalted level he destiny.
article_snippet: Nothing sums up England's out-dated methods at this otherwise expansive World Cup than to watch AB de Villiers AB de Villiers going about he work.
article_snippet: Okay, perhaps it is unfair to criticise being dismissed by Rangana Herath of Sri Lanka during the World Cup match for not living up to a genius who has defied belief with the most spectacular batting in cricket history but AB de Villiers has become the benchmark now for everyone else to attempt to emulate.
article_snippet: lucky AB de Villiers is a cricketer at all.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers grew up in Pretoria playing hockey, football, rugby, tennis and badminton to international standard at age-group level while also being an accomplished sprinter and swimmer.
article_snippet: These days, in AB de Villiers spare time, AB de Villiers plays golf off scratch on top of being an all-round cricketer who keeps wicket, bowls and fields to a high level for AB de Villiers country as well as indisputably the best limited-overs batsman in the world.
article_snippet: might like to note that it is hard to find anyone with a bad word to say about AB de Villiers.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers has been around for 10 years now at the highest level
article_snippet: but it is with two particular innings in the last two months that AB de Villiers has breathed life into the 50-over format and re-written the rules on what can be possible.
article_snippet: First, against the West Indies in Johannesburg in January, AB de Villiers reached three figures in just 31 balls, going from nought to a hundred in 40 minutes and smashing 16 sixes, the same number as India's Rohit Sharma during AB de Villiers record-breaking 264 against Sri Lanka.
article_snippet: Then, in this World Cup, AB de Villiers demolished the poor, hapless West Indians again with an extraordinary unbeaten 162, racing from a hundred to 150 in just 12 balls.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers now holds the records for the fastest 50, 100 and 150 in one-day international history.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers does not look particularly powerful, as Chris Gayle does, nor stocky and pugnacious like David Warner and Aaron Finch.
article_snippet: There is plenty that is orthodox about AB de Villiers methods but also an incredible ability to hit full-length balls outside of off-stump to the leg-side for six.
article_snippet: When AB de Villiers is in full flow
article_snippet: AB de Villiers is a joy to behold and for a while, against Pakistan on Saturday, AB de Villiers looked capable of winning the match on AB de Villiers own until that thin edge saw AB de Villiers side consigned to defeat.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers is I someone I look at who has played some amazing knocks.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers has been fantastic to watch.
article_snippet: AB de Villiers has shown what is possible.
highlights_snippet: Evidence suggests AB de Villiers is some kind of super power .
  
highlights_snippet: AB de Villiers has taken one-day batting to another, exalted level .