I just want to sit in my room and feel sad for a while: AB

South Africa were marginal fav-ourites against India in Sunday’s game but the crushing reversal left AB de Villiers embarrassed. The South African skipper, while admitting that India totally outplayed them was critical of his team’s performance on the day.

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On future course of action: There are a few things that need to happen. It's quite disappointing and I almost don't want to think about it now, but obviously come tomorrow we'll have to start strategising on how we're going to recover and regroup as a unit. We'll put all our focus on Friday against the West Indies. It's a big game for us and it's a must win for us in Sydney, but for now I just want to sort of go feel sad in my room for a while.
On if the occasion was too big for his side: Definitely not. It wasn’t just our day, I'd say.

It's difficult to put it down to exactly where we went wrong. Quite a few areas where we just didn't play as well as we wanted to. We started pretty slow with the ball in hand. It was difficult to make breakthroughs throughout the day, and at the end of the day, I thought it was probably a 275-280 par kind of wicket. We actually did well to keep it down to 307 and I thought we had a chance halfway through the game but unfortunately just lost our way completely with the bat in hand.

On if it was India’s good bowling or poor SA batting: A bit of both, I think. I spoke to Hashim (Amla) after the innings. He actually mentioned to me that he was quite impressed with the bowling performance from India. I thought they were quite clever tonight, but definitely a poor batting performance. The two run outs cost us quite a lot tonight. You can't afford to have two run outs in the top six.