“I can take us to win a World Cup, I believe”
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It was the same story of South Africa failing to fire at an ICC event on Sunday, but captain AB de Villiers is adamant that he can guide the Proteas to victory at the 2019 World Cup.
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“We’ve set a goal for ourselves to try and get to number one by the time the tournament starts”
South Africa Twenty20 captain Faf du Plessis has announced that the Proteas are aiming to be the number one ranked Twenty20 team prior to the start of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh in March 2014.
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“I’m always fired up, that’s just how I play”
South Africa pace spearhead Dale Steyn has issued a challenge to his fellow bowlers, stating that if they are performing better than him, then they can take his place in the national team, but otherwise, they will have to “pull me out of this team”.
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“We had an opportunity to win the Champions Trophy and the Ashes in a short space of time and we didn’t quite take it”
England captain Alastair Cook has publicly admitted that he and his team-mates “are always going to be disappointed by the Champions Trophy final”, in which they lost to India by five runs in Birmingham.
