5 Best Moments of AB De Villiers Career

2) His highest test score, 278 vs Pakistan, Abu Dhabi, 2010

De Villiers was at the crease for more than 10 hours

In the first innings of the second match of the two-test match series, South Africa had lost three wickets for only 33 runs and was looking to get a low score.

De Villiers came in next to bat and stitched a crucial partnership of 179 runs to bring his team back into the game.

On one side he was scoring runs and on the other side, wickets were falling at regular intervals.

At one time they were 477-9 but ABD assured his team gets to big total and build a tenth wicket partnership of 107 runs with Morne Morkel and took his team to a huge score of 584-9d.

In the process of batting for more than 10 hours in the scorching heat of Abu Dhabi, he also broke the Graeme Smith's record of highest test score by a South African.