Fanie de Villiers

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What is the greatest bowling performance of all time in Tests?

Is it Hadlee's 9 for 52? Or Broad's 8 for 15? Or is it neither of those? A comprehensive rating system reveals all

26-Aug-2023•Anantha Narayanan

The top 25 Test bowling performances of all time

A definitive list based on an exhaustive and thorough ratings system

30-Jun-2018•Anantha Narayanan

Rishton's summer of Viv

A look back to the time, 30 years ago, when the Lancashire League found a superstar in their midst

16-Aug-2017•Scott Oliver

'I saw some of the so-called tough guys of world cricket tremble'

A look back to when Devon Malcolm breathed fire and spewed brimstone at The Oval against South Africa

28-Jul-2017•Scott Oliver

Going one up on Fanie

If you got on top of an overseas pro on the field, he'd do everything to intimidate you after that. Not Fanie de Villiers

17-Sep-2016•Haydn Morgan

Going gargantuan

The greatest Test performances: Nos. 21-30 feature a bunch of tall scores, Sehwag and Lara triples, a KP classic, and a Pollock milestone

28-Dec-2015

'We were the Cinderella team'

The South Africans were wide-eyed on their first tour of Australia after readmission, but they proved they were no rookies

25-Oct-2012•Firdose Moonda

'I was the best in the world with the offcutter'

The former South Africa fast bowler talks about what you ought to bowl to Tendulkar, digging poetry, nearly losing his eyes, and then some

26-Oct-2011•Interview by Sidharth Monga

Everybody loves Fanie

There was never a dull moment when he was around, biting the ears of umpires, red-carding spectators or giving away Jonty Rhodes shirts for booze

23-Dec-2010•Sidharth Monga

Talk a good game

After cricket, South Africa's metronome took up public speaking and got into the hydraulics business

01-Nov-2009

Telling off the toffs

Fanie de Villiers on the time he red-carded the egg-and-bacon-tie brigade

18-Aug-2008

de Villiers keen on coaching Indian bowlers

Fanie de Villiers, former South African fast bowler, has stated his interest in coaching India's fast bowlers on their current tour of South Africa

21-Nov-2006•Cricinfo staff

More dangerous games

Another selection of moments where batsmen came off second best to fast bowlers

09-May-2006•Martin Williamson and Andrew Miller

Great Train Robberies, TMS and Bajan miracles

We asked you to pick out the greatest Test you had ever seen (or one you wished you had), and the responses ranged from the famed - Barbados 1999 - to the long-forgotten (Dunedin 1980)

26-Aug-2005•Cricinfo staff

Fanie's finest and Tugga's Last Stand

We asked you to pick out the greatest Test you had ever seen (or one you wished you had), and the responses ranged from the predictable to the not-so

17-Aug-2005•Cricinfo staff

'Players are not equipped for the next level'

Fanie de Villiers was nippy as a bowler

01-Sep-2004

Forget transformation, urges de Villiers

Fanie de Villiers, the former Test fast bowler, has appealed to the United Cricket Board (UCB) to 'forget transformation' in an attempt to halt South Africa's spiral of defeats

31-Aug-2004•Telford Vice/MWP

de Villiers warns against Pakistan tour<BR>

Fanie de Villiers spent almost as much energy sightseeing as he did bowling during his playing career, but this peripatetic paceman would rather avoid Pakistan right now

12-Sep-2003•Telford Vice

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