India's historic World Cup victory against South Africa: Who said what

The defending champions, India, have sent a strong message across the cricketing world with their second successive thumping in the ongoing World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.They entered into the tournament on a disastrous note, having not won a single international match since December 2014, but have inflicted heavy defeats on Pakistan and South Africa and are now on the top of the group table with 4 points from two matches. Here is how MS Dhoni, AB de Villiers, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, Shikhar Dhawan, Harsha Bhogle and Aakash Chopra reacted to the result of the India-South Africa encounter at Melbourne today: 

#1 AB de Villiers

"Yeah, it's a big knock for us to get beaten by 130 runs. 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, feel like you've got a chance to win games. We're going to have to lick our wounds for a while."

“I just want to sort of go feel sad in my room for a while, and we'll see again how I feel tomorrow. Today's performance can creep into your game if you start thinking about it too much. If you allow it to creep in, it will knock your confidence down. I want to have a mature chat and honest chat about it. When it comes down to making the quarterfinals, I still believe that if we play some good cricket, we'll make that."

De Villiers doesn’t think that the massive crowd support that India had at the stadium had a role to play in the result. He added: "As Hashim (Amla) said to me, India batted well. And we need to win games anywhere in the world if we want to be the best cricket team in the world.

“He actually mentioned to me that he was quite impressed with the bowling performance from India. I thought they were quite clever tonight, but definitely a poor batting performance. Like I mentioned before, the two run outs (his and David Miller) cost us quite a lot tonight.”