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Reaction after South Africa crush Ireland by 201 runs in Canberra

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SOUNDBITE: (English) AB de Villiers, South Africa captain (Q: How would you assess that performance today? Did it tick a lot of boxes?)

"I'm very happy with the performance. Ireland are a tricky team to play. I think they've taken a lot of confidence from the start they had in this World Cup and I think we paid them all of the respect that they deserve which probably helped us to perform a bit better today. It's very easy to underestimate a team like that and I thought that the guys stuck to their guns really well and started off exceptionally well with a great partnership between Faf (du Plessis) and Hashim (Amla). When you get a partnership of two hundred plus in an ODI, you're always going to get yourself into a good position as a batting unit and we found ourselves in a great position going into the last 15 overs which gave us a lot of freedom to express ourselves. We ticked a lot of boxes today. You can never be exceptionally happy with your performance, I'm just very happy with the way that we did the basics well today and stuck to playing a tight game of cricket."

SOUNDBITE: (English) AB de Villiers, South Africa captain (Q: Given your recent results, do you now feel that you're in a position to win the tournament?)

"I don't feel like it now, I've felt like it for the last year to be very honest with you. The confidence is still there. The belief is still there. We know that we've got a very long way to go. There is a lot of cricket to be played. It's been said so many times that we are one of the favourites to win this tournament, and deep down inside we know we can. That's not the problem. The problem is that we're going to have to take it one game at a time and that is Pakistan in Auckland as our next game and we're hoping to deliver another performance like we have in the few games."

SOUNDBITE: (english) Hashim Amla, South Africa batsman (Q: You're in scoring form at the moment. What do you attribute that to?)

"You like to score runs every game but I don't think that's quite possible unless you're Don Bradman or AB de Villiers (laughter) but wherever possible we just like to cash in where we can and get some runs."