AB de Villiers, a player of South Africa cricket team, has become the fastest cricketer to score 9,000 runs in one-day internationals. The cricketer broke the record of former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly. The new record was set during the third ODI against New Zealand in Wellington on Saturday, February 25.

Villiers stands at number 18 in overall countings of cricketers and at number two in South Africans after Jacques Kallis who has reached the score of 9,000, but he has the highest average of 53.86 and boasted an incredible strike-rate of 99.94.

The cricketer has overtaken the record of Sourav Ganguly, who hit 228 innings, getting to the milestone in 205 innings. He is just 23 innings fewer than the Indian player.

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