With AB de Villiers about to make his 100th Test appearance for South Africa on Saturday, we take a look at how he compares to other Proteas greats in the five-day format.
* denotes still active
MOST TESTS
165 Jacques Kallis
146 Mark Boucher
116 Graeme Smith
108 Shaun Pollock
101 Gary Kirsten, Makhaya Ntini
*99 AB de Villiers
MOST RUNS
13 206 Jacques Kallis
9 253 Graeme Smith
*7 685 AB de Villiers
7 289 Gary Kirsten
*6 813 Hashim Amla
6 167 Herschelle Gibbs
5 498 Mark Boucher
HIGHEST SCORES
*311no Hashim Amla
*278no AB de Villiers
277 Graeme Smith
275no Daryll Cullinan
275 Gary Kirsten
274 Graeme Pollock
259 Graeme Smith
HIGHEST AVERAGE
60.97 Graeme Pollock
55.25 Jacques Kallis
53.81 Dudley Nourse
*52.00 Hashim Amla
*51.92 AB de Villiers
49.08 Colin Bland
48.88 Bruce Mitchell
48.70 Graeme Smith
*48.25 Faf du Plessis
MOST HUNDREDS
45 Jacques Kallis
27 Graeme Smith
*23 Hashim Amla
*21 AB de Villiers
21 Gary Kirsten
14 Daryll Cullinan, Herschelle Gibbs
11 Ashwell Prince
MOST FIFTIES (AND OVER)
103 Jacques Kallis
65 Graeme Smith
*58 AB de Villiers
55 Gary Kirsten
*51 Hashim Amla
40 Herschelle Gibbs, Mark Boucher
34 Daryll Cullinan
29 Bruce Mitchell, Hansie Cronje
MOST DUCKS
21 Makhaya Ntini
17 Allan Donald
16 Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis
15 Morne Morkel
13 Gary Kirsten
*12 Dale Steyn
11 Andre Nel, Roy McLean, Hansie Cronje, Herschelle Gibbs
10 Daryll Cullinan, Graeme Smith
Also: *3 AB de Villiers
DID YOU KNOW?
AB de Villiers has taken two Test wickets at an average of 52.00. He picked up 2-49 against West Indies in Antigua in 2005. The West Indies totalled 747 all out in reply to South Africa’s first innings of 588-6 dec (De Villiers opened the batting and scored 114 in an opening stand of 245 with Graeme Smith).