AB de Villiers Hundred WCL 2025: The blast of giants continues in England, as the second season of the World Championship of Legends is being played. In the eighth match of this season, England Champions and South Africa Champions clashed, in which the Proteas won by 10 wickets with 46 balls to spare.
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Playing first in the match, England team scored 152/6 in 20 overs, in response, South Africa Champions achieved the target by scoring 153 runs in just 12.2 overs without losing any wicket. The hero of South Africa’s victory was captain AB de Villiers, who played a brilliant unbeaten century innings.
England Champions could not play any big innings
Losing the toss and batting first, England Champions had a bad start. Opener Ravi Bopara could not do anything special and was dismissed in the second over after scoring 7 runs. Moeen Ali also disappointed and he too got out after scoring 10 runs in 11 balls. The pair of Phil Mustard and Samit Patel took the score to 81 but then Samit was dismissed after scoring 24 runs in 16 balls.
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Mustard faced 33 balls but he could score only 39 runs with the help of three fours and a six. Captain Eoin Morgan scored 20 runs in 14 balls. However, Ian Bell could score only 7 runs. Tim Ambrose remained unbeaten on 19 and Liam Plunkett on 13. Wayne Parnell and Imran Tahir took two wickets each for South Africa.
AB de Villiers single-handedly led South Africa to victory
South Africa’s team, which came out to chase the target, got a tremendous start. Captain AB de Villiers showed a stormy style from the beginning and completed his half-century in just 20 balls in the powerplay itself. Even after this, de Villiers’s stormy batting continued and he scored a century in 41 balls. There was an unbeaten partnership of 153 runs between him and Hashim Amla (29*), which gave South Africa an easy victory. De Villiers scored an unbeaten 116 runs in 51 balls, which included 15 fours and seven sixes. In this way, de Villiers scored 102 runs in just 22 balls with the help of boundaries.
