One of the great entertainers and a proper freak. He’ll be missed by Cricket fans everywhere.
Much is made of all ABdV’s junior prowess across a variety of sports including tennis, athletics, hockey and football; but a number of his achievements are less well known.
He won his first Nobel Prize, for physics, as a nine week old foetus, before his autobiography - released at age eight - won the Pulitzer and earned him his second Nobel, this time in literature. At the age of 14 he fixed the hole in the ozone layer before reversing climate change at his 21st birthday party.
Single handedly responsible for a three-fold increase in South African economic growth, de Villiers earned his Masters in Economics at 12.
When ABdV defeated Klitschko to win the world heavyweight title, as a two year old, he became the youngest champion in history, before a record string of 18 NBA titles and seven golfing grand slams saw him focus on Cricket; principally because he had done everything else.