Intro:

Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 27th February 2015.

Script:

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

(On his innings of 162)

"It actually wasn't coming off the middle of the bat, not all of them. Look... you get into that kind of mode, it doesn't happen very often and then it's quite a good feeling to sort of feel that you're one step ahead of the bowlers, I think that's the main thing. You get a really good gut feel for what they are trying to do and I guess that's part of cricket. Look, you work really hard to get yourself in, then you work really hard to get some momentum behind you and then you've earned the right to sort of take a bit of control of the game and sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn't. I got dropped a few times today, which meant that I could really free up at the end and dominate a bit.!"

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

(On the contributions of Rilee Rossouw and Kyle Abbott)

"Yeah, very happy. Especially Rilee today. I thought he was the guy who started everything for us in the middle of the innings there. He played with a lot of intensity, a lot of energy. I was feeding off him to start with and yeah, a lot of credit's got to go to him. But very happy with everyone's performance, Kyle Abbott starting off amazingly well, getting Chris Gayle out early on, swinging the new ball, he just looks like a really experienced bowler out there. It looks like he knew what he was doing and that's just great to see."

SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Holder, West Indies captain:

(On the innings of his opposite number, AB de Villiers)

"Yeah, he played a really great innings today. I thought we were well in the game when he came to the crease, but he was his normal exceptional self. All credit to him, I thought he played well and took the game away from us in the end."