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South Africa captain AB de Villiers blasts his side's batting after their 130-run defeat to India at the Cricket World Cup.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) AB de Villiers, South Africa captain:

"Just not 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. 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 them down to 307 and I felt we had a chance halfway through the game, but unfortunately just lost our way completely with the bat in hand. Two run-outs. Run-outs absolutely unacceptable in the top six. Just can't afford those kind of things. Other than that, we were just outplayed today.

"Yes, it's a big knock for us, to get beaten by 130 runs. It's, it's almost embarrassing. You never want to lose by that amount of runs. You always want to be a competitive team, feel like you're always in the game, got a chance to win games. We pride ourselves on that and it didn't happen today. So we're going to have to lick our wounds for a while. It's not just, 'you know what, win a few more games, we'll be through to the quarter-finals.' It's not about that. Your confidence takes a bit of knock, a bit of a knock with performances like that and, it's up to the senior group of players to make sure that confidence is still there come Friday against the West Indies 'cause little things like, like today's performance can creep into your game if you start thinking about it too much and if you allow it to knock your confidence down. But I feel like we're a mature group of players and we'll regroup, like I said before, and we'll have a chat tomorrow about where we went wrong and have a mature chat and honest chat about it, and then hopefully play some good cricket on Friday. When it comes down to making the quarter-finals, I still believe that if we play some good cricket, we'll make that, but for now we'll just have to lick our wounds and then focus on Friday."