Cricket World Cup highlights AB de Villiers attempts to lift a cursed team.CERTAIN competitors are dunked in enchantment. Harmless idiosyncrasies get the attention. Unpretentious developments convey hoisted degrees of reason and energy. They're sharp. Definitive. Intuitive. Ascertained daring individuals with a squinting and astute eye. Twenty20 vision of match-turning subtleties go unnoticed by imbecilic enemies. There's smooth beauty. Constant heartlessness. The bloodlines of the bird and the two-timer bundle. Enchantment. There's enchantment in AB de Villiers, however not yet significance.
A favored competitor endeavors to lift a reviled wearing group when South Africa meet Sri Lanka in today's World Cup quarter-last at the SCG. Exclusively and by and large as a side inclined to vanishing from World Cups like they're in a David Copperfield routine — a puff of smoke and they're gone — the Proteas will uncover themselves as maybe the genuine article or illusionists.
Don't stifle. The history is dreary and choking. At the point when the courteous de Villiers was tested about "the label" yesterday, there was no compelling reason to say what the label really was. "I haven't pondered that frequently," de Villiers said. "Everything I can say is we're not going to stifle. We're going to play a decent round of cricket and end up a winner. Basic."
An alternate of de Villiers' reactions to The Tag That Shall Not be Named: "Totally distinctive players this time. Diverse squads. I accept we're prepared for whatever comes our direction. I can't let you know what's distinctive in light of the fact that there's very little diverse, with the exception of an entire group of new players. I don't know by what other method to clarify that. Too bad."
Don't stifle. "We're attempting to keep it straightforward in this group," he said. "We're a pack of great gentlemen. We truly appreciate one another's conversation. We had a superb group supper the previous evening. Had a pleasant chuckle. There's sufficient chuckling, there's sufficient anxiety, there's sufficient nerves, there's sufficient great cricket, there's sufficient awful cricket, we've got a mixture of everything in the group. We've recently got to figure out how to win. That is my message."
The historical backdrop of gagging and condemnations. Dudded by downpour. Dudded by the Duckworth-Lewis strategy. Dudded by both the downpour and misjudging the Duckworth-Lewis strategy. The mother of all runouts at Lord's and a couple of astoundingly normal exhibitions.
"We wouldn't fret putting concentrate on that," de Villiers said. "In any case we haven't concentrated on it on the grounds that I don't believe its vital to concentrate on what's happened before. I for one haven't put a ton of accentuation on what happened in 1999, 2003, 2007 — there's a variety of things we trust in, in this cricket group, that is possibly unique in relation to the past.
"I'm the commander of the group and I need to show others how its done. I accept the rest will take after. I feel certain and forceful in that."
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's prematch message added up to this: get de Villiers. The man-on-man challenge between de Villiers and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara may shape the outcome more than whatever other individual fight.
"To be extremely genuine with you, and I trust you don't take it in the wrong way, I couldn't think less about him or me," de Villiers said. "I simply need to win of cricket tomorrow. On the off chance that its our No 11 batsman who wins us the diversion, so be it. "
Sri Lanka chief Angelo Matthews said: "They're legends of the advanced diversion. We've seen Kumar Sangakkara hitting four centuries consecutively, and I trust and supplicate he gets the fifth one tomorrow. Abdominal muscle has done really well. We all know he's a dangerous player. When he gets going, its truly difficult to stop him. We'll look to assault him early."
Yes, de Villiers' 149 from 44 balls in January was an ethereal presentation. That's right, his 162 from 66 balls at the SCG a month ago was to batsmanship what Imagine was to music. Anyhow those innings came against the West Indies. Those matches were of restricted significance.
Don't gag. "I'm simply truly agreeable with where the group is at and with the structure everybody has demonstrated," de Villiers said when the Proteas took the free day preparing yesterday. "I simply felt it was critical not to concentrate excessively on cricket today — kind of get the cerebrum exchanged off a bit before the huge conflict tomorrow. It's essential for us to be new. I accept we play great cricket when we're new. That is the point at which we rationally handle the circumstance so vastly improved.
A favored competitor endeavors to lift a reviled wearing group when South Africa meet Sri Lanka in today's World Cup quarter-last at the SCG. Exclusively and by and large as a side inclined to vanishing from World Cups like they're in a David Copperfield routine — a puff of smoke and they're gone — the Proteas will uncover themselves as maybe the genuine article or illusionists.
Don't stifle. The history is dreary and choking. At the point when the courteous de Villiers was tested about "the label" yesterday, there was no compelling reason to say what the label really was. "I haven't pondered that frequently," de Villiers said. "Everything I can say is we're not going to stifle. We're going to play a decent round of cricket and end up a winner. Basic."
An alternate of de Villiers' reactions to The Tag That Shall Not be Named: "Totally distinctive players this time. Diverse squads. I accept we're prepared for whatever comes our direction. I can't let you know what's distinctive in light of the fact that there's very little diverse, with the exception of an entire group of new players. I don't know by what other method to clarify that. Too bad."
Don't stifle. "We're attempting to keep it straightforward in this group," he said. "We're a pack of great gentlemen. We truly appreciate one another's conversation. We had a superb group supper the previous evening. Had a pleasant chuckle. There's sufficient chuckling, there's sufficient anxiety, there's sufficient nerves, there's sufficient great cricket, there's sufficient awful cricket, we've got a mixture of everything in the group. We've recently got to figure out how to win. That is my message."
The historical backdrop of gagging and condemnations. Dudded by downpour. Dudded by the Duckworth-Lewis strategy. Dudded by both the downpour and misjudging the Duckworth-Lewis strategy. The mother of all runouts at Lord's and a couple of astoundingly normal exhibitions.
"We wouldn't fret putting concentrate on that," de Villiers said. "In any case we haven't concentrated on it on the grounds that I don't believe its vital to concentrate on what's happened before. I for one haven't put a ton of accentuation on what happened in 1999, 2003, 2007 — there's a variety of things we trust in, in this cricket group, that is possibly unique in relation to the past.
"I'm the commander of the group and I need to show others how its done. I accept the rest will take after. I feel certain and forceful in that."
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's prematch message added up to this: get de Villiers. The man-on-man challenge between de Villiers and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara may shape the outcome more than whatever other individual fight.
"To be extremely genuine with you, and I trust you don't take it in the wrong way, I couldn't think less about him or me," de Villiers said. "I simply need to win of cricket tomorrow. On the off chance that its our No 11 batsman who wins us the diversion, so be it. "
Sri Lanka chief Angelo Matthews said: "They're legends of the advanced diversion. We've seen Kumar Sangakkara hitting four centuries consecutively, and I trust and supplicate he gets the fifth one tomorrow. Abdominal muscle has done really well. We all know he's a dangerous player. When he gets going, its truly difficult to stop him. We'll look to assault him early."
Yes, de Villiers' 149 from 44 balls in January was an ethereal presentation. That's right, his 162 from 66 balls at the SCG a month ago was to batsmanship what Imagine was to music. Anyhow those innings came against the West Indies. Those matches were of restricted significance.
Don't gag. "I'm simply truly agreeable with where the group is at and with the structure everybody has demonstrated," de Villiers said when the Proteas took the free day preparing yesterday. "I simply felt it was critical not to concentrate excessively on cricket today — kind of get the cerebrum exchanged off a bit before the huge conflict tomorrow. It's essential for us to be new. I accept we play great cricket when we're new. That is the point at which we rationally handle the circumstance so vastly improved.
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