About Fanie de Villiers
Petrus Stephanus "Fanie" de Villiers, is a retired cricketer who played 18 Test matches and 83 One Day Internationals for South Africa as a right arm fast-medium bowler and right hand batsman between 1992 and 1998. De Villiers debuted in first-class cricket in 1985–86 for Northern Transvaal B. He was selected for the first Test in Melbourne but it was at the second Test in Sydney where De Villiers established himself at Test level. In the Test against Pakistan in Johannesburg, De Villiers became the first ever South African to score a fifty and take ten wickets in the same Test, scoring 66 not out and taking 6 for 81 and 4 for 27. He was subsequently named the South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year in 1995, an award he had previously won in 1989.
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