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[caption id="attachment_47380" align="aligncenter" width="580"] I don’t think we are a bad cricket team, says AB de Villiers[/caption] Internet Desk: India registered a scintillating victory over South Africa in their third game of the ICC Champions Trophy where the defending champions thrashed the current World Ranked No1 team to register a 8 wicket victory. This game was a virtual quarter final as it was a do-or-die encounter for both the sides. Victory for India consolidated a spot in the semis while the Proteas are knocked out of the tournament. Batting first the South Africa was restricted to a mere total of 191 after some superb bowling and fielding from the blue outfits. In return the Indian side led by their aggressive keeper Virat Kohli finished the game off in style with 12 overs to go. Despite crashing out of the tournament the Proteas skipper AB De Villers is adamant to remain as the captain for his side. In the post-match conference he said claimed that he can still effectively lead his team forward. “I believe I am a good captain and I can take this team forward. I believed the same thing in this tournament and the last one. I love doing it (captaining the side)” said De Villers. “Not a lot of people believed that but I think it Is not that far away (winning an ICC tournament). It is difficult to sell it on this kind of performance but that is what I believe in. We are very close as a unit and there is more than enough talent in the squad. We just got to make it work when it matters the most” he added. ADB is determined to be a part of the team in the 2019 ICC World Cup. “I am not thinking about the next one now. We are not thinking about the next tournament which is probably the world cup in 2019. We had covered all the bases before this tournament and we worked very hard in the nets. We have each other and trust each other and for some reason things like these just happen. Absolutely I will play in the next world cup”. “That question (radical changes in the team) can only be answered by people who are in charge of making the radical decisions. That is not my decision. So we will have to wait and see. I don’t think we are a bad cricket team” said De Villers. He highly praised the Indian pacers, namely Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah who were instrumental in restricting SA to such a low score. “We would have loved to have more runs in the first 10 overs but they bowled extremely well and hardly missed the mark. There were no soft boundary options for us in the first 10 overs. We picked up the run-rate in the middle overs, until my run out. A perfect score would have been somewhere in the region of 300. I felt it was disappointing” said De Villers. ABD felt short of words when he was enquired about the run outs. There were three run outs which involved a comical run out in which David Miller was dismissed. Imran Tahir was also run out at a later part of the innings. "I felt the team was pretty composed there and I don’t think we lost the match because of lack of composure. Error in judgement and few errors cost us dear today. We desperately needed a partnership in the middle overs and that is where we lost our way. Run outs happen but three in one innings is definitely not the way how we bat. So, it was unfortunate that we could not get the partnership going and it has got nothing to do with composure," De Villiers said. "Very difficult to explain that (run-outs) as I don’t know how that happened. Two guys who are building a partnership out there and are trying to trust each other but sometimes that doesn’t happen and they come up short. It is one of those things that happen," he said.