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South Africa batsman Hashim Amla, speaking in Sydney on Tuesday, believes there is not too much drama about the defeat to India as it has come so early in the tournament.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Hashim Amla, South Africa,
"I wouldn't say it was a conscious effort. I mean everybody in the team has played enough to know that you do win and lose games. There is always going to be one loser and one winner in the game that past. So it is not to get too dramatic about it. We didn't play good cricket. We take the knock on the chin, certainly coming here we know that we got few more games in this round robin phase to go through. And guys have been playing good, so we don't have to dwell too much on it. But going into the next game you know we know certainly got to perform better".

SOUNDBITE: (English) Hashim Amla, South Africa,
"Yeah, the added responsibility that you know if you lose a game, if you lose two games then certainly makes third and fourth one lot more riding on the result, so yeah, there is that type of responsibility. But it is still early in the competition now, so I don't think there is any ..there is no big dramas at the moment".

SOUNDBITE: (English) Hashim Amla, South Africa
"They bat quite long, they have (Darren) Sammy at seven and (Andre) Russel at eight, and you know those are guys who can hit the ball a long way and quite dangerous. So I think their batting is quite explosive, and the bowling front as well. So on their day they can really take the opposition apart and on other days the opposition can put them under pressure. So it is an explosive team and that is generally the nature of how they...those kind of teams operate".