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00:00New batsmen, AB de Villiers
00:04The crease, Mann in form
00:06100 in his last game, 107 not out
00:11And just a little bit of a wobble here from South Africa
00:1650 and out loss and 58 for 2
00:2051 without loss
00:23And Mayor Smith went and Jack Keller's just a little unlucky
00:28Caught down the leg side
00:30Oh, come on
00:33Have another look at the wicket
00:35It'll gone too full as fetched
00:37Like that
00:39It's nicely put away by AB de Villiers
00:42Not looking to hit the ball too hard, it's a full toss
00:45And he's just got it in the gap
00:47And it's gone for 4
00:49Beautifully timed, but also what it highlights is how quick this outfield is
00:54It's a very, very quick outfield
00:56And this ground in itself can be a difficult ground to defend
00:58Particularly if you don't quite get the total that you're looking to achieve
01:03So South Africa will be aware of that
01:05They know they're going to have to get up around 300
01:14In the air and it's gone wide of the man
01:18Wide of third man and a couple of boundaries in a row for AB de Villiers
01:22He's in fine touch
01:23De Villiers on this occasion opening the face of the bat
01:27Lifting it over the two backward points
01:30Recognising there's an opportunity for another boundary
01:35Obviously the graphic that I'll show you all at home
01:40Just exactly what the field is
01:45That's slapped away wide of mid-arm, just a fraction short
01:49De Villiers so quick, A with his feet
01:52And B with his hands
01:56It's a terrific shot this from De Villiers
02:00He knew exactly where the fielder was, he was at deep square leg
02:03There was nobody at deep mid-wicket
02:06And he hit it along the ground, didn't try to hit it over the top either
02:10Took no chances
02:13Very well
02:17Clever
02:19It's a sort of innovation that he's also capable of, AB de Villiers
02:27He's very cleverly done
02:30Very good innovation there
02:33By De Villiers
02:35Saw that ball around the off stump, took a chance
02:38Just helped it along, didn't try to hit it too far
02:41And now with that boundary of that first ball, pressure on the bowler
02:49De Villiers
02:55I think the points that Ian Boathams made on air have been
03:00Very good
03:02As De Villiers brings up yet another 50
03:06In this format of the game
03:09It's almost like job not done yet, small appreciation by him
03:14To a small crowd that are in here to applaud him
03:19He wants to turn that into three figures no doubt
03:27The points that Ian were making are ones that you've also just observed
03:32What happened to the Yorker?
03:35Where's the Yorker gone?
03:37I don't know whether it's the bowlers that don't have the skill
03:41Because I've seen them do it
03:43It's a question of being able to do it
03:44Seven wickets
03:47That's a lovely shot over the bowler's head
03:49That's the safest place to go
03:50Four more for De Villiers
03:54That's the best part of his knock
03:56He's picked boundaries whenever he wanted to
03:58He's improvised well, read the bowler's length well
04:01And fantastic shot over the bowler's head
04:06Going back to what England did against India in the last
04:13Four more
04:15And that's four more
04:17Very very clever shot
04:19From A.V. De Villiers
04:22He knows where the field is
04:25And placed this
04:27Umpires make the signal
04:29Logged
04:32That's a good shot by A.V. De Villiers
04:36What's nice about this shot
04:37So just watch his front foot here
04:40He just opens, gets it out the way
04:42So he can play the shot
04:44And this is a man of
04:45Full confidence
04:48Timing
04:52If you watch here, look at that front foot
04:53Doesn't get out there
04:54Just stays out that leg side
04:56So he can get his leg side for the sweep
05:00But he's not going to stop that
05:01When you're going to sweep it over the top
05:03And that's six
05:05So very very well played by De Villiers
05:08Recognising there's no
05:09Outfielder behind square
05:11And that's the first six of the day
05:14Just comfortably getting inside that
05:16And lifting it
05:17Over those two shortfielders behind square
05:20Wrong length wasn't it really
05:21It's got to be fuller than that
05:23Otherwise
05:24That's exactly what will happen
05:25Down on one knee
05:27And make sure you can get your bat
05:29Underneath the ball
05:30Which he did easily
05:33Overcover this time as I say
05:36That's an area where he likes to hit it
05:37He's had to hit that off the back foot
05:39Making room for himself
05:41You'll see him do it off the front foot as well
05:46De Villiers with that shot
05:47Reaches 200 runs for this tournament
05:49And this just shows the class of the player
05:51He can hit anywhere on this ground
05:54Going deep in his crease
05:58Well bowled again by Bakari
05:59But it's through
06:00Poor piece of fielding there
06:02Cover point
06:05He recognised that he's put his hand up to the bowl
06:07And Bakari got it right up in the bock hole
06:09Zutterer was the man
06:11And he jammed it out square of the wicket
06:15He got four for it
06:16Shouldn't have been
06:19Bakari is spitting blood
06:21Still spitting blood
06:25He's already used a word or two
06:35Hundred number two for De Villiers
06:37In two innings
06:39One of the superb innings this has been
06:41A hundred from 88 deliveries
06:44Just pushed the South African score along
06:47Looked after Amner the other end
06:49While he went to a hundred
06:51And kept that scoring rate going
06:53Terrific batting
06:57241 for two
07:09241 for two
07:35241 for two
07:36De Villiers just completing his second century of this
07:39Cricket World Cup 2011
07:41In as many innings
07:43107 not out against the West Indies
07:45A hundred not out at the moment against the Netherlands
07:50And that hundred coming in 88 deliveries
07:56The spin of Sela
07:57Having bowled one over for 16 is
08:01Not going to happen anymore
08:02Not for the moment anyway
08:03And Bernard Lewitz
08:06Will bowl from the city end
08:07And sitting next to me
08:09Sunil Gavaskar
08:12Very good partnership this
08:14Good launching pad now for these last
08:17Seven overs
08:18Both batsmen well set
08:21Hitting the ball well
08:22De Villiers in particular has been
08:24Quite extraordinary getting his hundred in 88 deliveries
08:28Amla has taken a little more time but
08:30He's given the solidity to the innings
08:34Big hit
08:35Huge hit
08:36Man back there but it's over his head
08:40De Villiers second six of the innings
08:44Just the length ball that he was looking for
08:48You bowl length balls now
08:49You're going to go
08:52And he's gone
08:56All the fans
08:57Ha ha ha
08:59Well the fielder was hoping that
09:01Might have
09:03Been a little bit of a miscue
09:04Wasn't
09:06Fiercely struck by
09:07De Villiers
09:11Take some pace off the ball
09:12Maybe
09:15De Villiers didn't middle it quite
09:16That's why it only just cleared
09:28There's another one
09:30But there is a man under this one
09:31Is he going to be out?
09:32No
09:33He's fallen over the rope
09:34And the ball's gone over his head
09:37Back to back sixes
09:40Obviously the bowler didn't learn anything
09:41From the previous delivery
09:42This one was probably a little quicker
09:45The first one was the slower delivery
09:47This was a little bit quicker
09:48But again
09:49Length ball
09:51De Villiers goes straight this time
09:54That's a sweet bat
09:55Making a very, very sweet sound
10:01Where's the ball?
10:02Where's the ball?
10:11There's another one
10:12And that's gone a long way
10:14Slower ball attempted
10:16De Villiers waited
10:18So that's three in a row
10:22Let's not mention it just yet
10:26Well in the last World Cup
10:27Another South African hit six sixes
10:32Herschel Gibbs
10:34If I remember rightly
10:35Hit six sixes in an over
10:38I'm not too sure which team it was against
10:42It was against
10:43The Netherlands
10:45Now
10:46De Villiers
10:47Back
10:48It's a slightly varied field
10:49Not much
10:51And
10:53Dennis
10:55God it's going to
10:57We can expect it to be full
10:58And driven to long on and long off
11:00Along the ground
11:02Oh what a brilliant shot
11:04What a brilliant shot
11:07Dear oh dear
11:09I don't know what they get up to these days
11:13Cheeky as well
11:15And
11:16The bowler himself has a smile
11:18He's played a few in his time
11:21And if he had missed it
11:22It probably would have
11:24Been on the grill of the helmet
11:28Field is in the circle
11:30And no protection for
11:32Him on the offside
11:37It's over cover that's four more
11:41Oh this power play is
11:43Turning into something of some proportion
11:49The first two balls of the previous over
11:51In fact the first three were hit for sixes
11:54Now the first two balls he's hit for boundaries
12:0556 runs and 20 deliveries of the power play
12:1010 more deliveries to come
12:12Of the batting power play
12:21Over mid-off
12:23Just brought mid-off up
12:25To give himself some
12:27Protection on the square cover boundary
12:30And de Villiers hit him
12:32Straight back to where he came from
12:36Once again the bowler
12:38Is bowling
12:40Just a bit of length deliveries
12:41And that's allowing
12:43A.B. de Villiers to pick his spot
12:45If he hit it over cover
12:47The first couple of deliveries
12:48Now it's over
12:49Over cover
12:50The first couple of deliveries
12:51Now this one he's played with a straight bat
12:53Over mid-off
12:57Look at that he's actually
12:59Picking the spot
13:03He does it without any problems whatsoever
13:11Just once
13:13He's gonna push for a second
13:14Gotta hurry he's gone I reckon
13:16I reckon he's gone
13:17Oh what a way to go as well
13:20He's playing so so well
13:22No danger whatsoever of
13:24Well the bowler's getting him
13:26And he's gone and gone
13:28For a second run
13:29Seems to be confident
13:33But he can make his way back
13:35Because there's the confirmation
13:37Good work done by the bowler
13:40To gather the ball and
13:42Whip the bails off
13:43A good throw back as well
13:45Bounced in
13:48And de Villiers has got to
13:49Go back to the change room
13:51Doesn't take away though
13:53From what a fantastic innings that was
13:55There's the confirmation
13:58There you go
14:01Yes that's the confirmation that he's out
14:04But what an unnecessary end
14:05To a brilliant innings
14:06283 for 4