ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 - 19th Match
(Pool B: South Africa vs West Indies at Sydney)
De Villiers 162* off 66, WI 151 all out
| South Africa | vs | West Indies |
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| 408/5 (50) | 151/10 (33.1) | |
| South Africa won by 257 runs | ||
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West Indies must be sick of AB de Villiers and South Africa by now. As if all those records broken in Johannesburg earlier this year were not enough, South Africa returned to embarrass them with another plethora, this time in a World Cup match. The most significant of those were 261 runs in the last 20 overs, a World Cup record and second only to the Johannesburg loot in all ODIs, de Villiers smashing the fastest 150 in ODIs, and the highest team total on Australian soil, an astonishing 408 on what was - believe it or not - a slow somewhat two-paced pitch. West Indies couldn't even score as much as de Villiers did, registering the joint-worst defeat in World Cups to give Pakistan and Ireland a boost should the final equation come down to net run-rate.
De Villiers now has the fastest fifty, hundred and 150 in ODI cricket - all against West Indies - and the fastest double cannot be too far away. Some might say West Indies did themselves a favour by not employing a slip during the stabilising partnership of 127 in 23.4 overs between Hashim Amla and Faf du Plessis. Had West Indies been more urgent and less content with the calm before the storm, they could have brought in the lower middle order early. Going by the carnage in the end, that might not have been that good a thing for West Indies.
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