How tall is AB de Villiers?

AB de Villiers's listed height is 178 cm (5'10"). He is taller than about 91% of men in South Africa.

Where 178 cm sits among men in South Africa

Taller than about 91% of men in South Africa born in 1984 (average 168.7 cm).

About AB de Villiers

AB de Villiers is a South African former professional cricketer, born Abraham Benjamin de Villiers on 17 February 1984 in Pretoria. He played mainly as a batter and also as a wicket-keeper. He began his domestic career in 2003, playing for Northerns and the Titans until 2018.

De Villiers represented South Africa from 2004 to 2018, scoring 8,765 runs in Test matches and 9,577 runs in One Day Internationals, with a batting average of over 50 in both formats. He captained the national team in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals during the 2010s. He played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League from 2011 until he retired from all professional cricket in 2021. He was named the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2010, 2014 and 2015, was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Decade in 2019, and was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2024.

De Villiers has a listed height of 178 cm (5'10"). He is described as one of the greatest batters of all time and is South Africa's second highest run scorer in ODIs.

Frequently asked

How tall is AB de Villiers in feet and inches? AB de Villiers is 5'10" tall, which is 178 cm, 70.1 inches or 1.78 m.

Is AB de Villiers tall for men in South Africa? At 178 cm he is taller than about 91% of men in South Africa born in 1984, whose average height is 168.7 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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