11 October,2015 01:49 AM IST | | PTI
After an unexpected series win in the Twenty20s, South Africa's ODI captain AB de Villiers says it would be challenging to maintain the momentum against India. Yes, it is vital, said De Villiers on the eve of the opening ODI while answering a query on the way forward on the team's long tour of South Africa
AB de Villiers
Kanpur: After an "unexpected" series win in the Twenty20s, South Africa's ODI captain AB de Villiers says it would be challenging to maintain the momentum against India. "Yes, it is vital," said De Villiers on the eve of the opening ODI while answering a query on the way forward on the team's long tour of South Africa.
AB de Villiers
"It is a great start in what promises to be a very challenging tour for us. In the T20 series, I don't think a lot of people expected us to play the way we did. There will be lots of travelling, lots of different grounds, lots of different wickets.
It is going to be challenging but we have got very important momentum on our side and we are hoping to build on it tomorrow," said the destructive batsman. He was soon reminded about the fact that South Africa are yet to win a bilateral ODI series in India.
'A whole new story now'
"We are hoping to win the series. We drew 2-2 way back in 2006. I was part of that series. We would love to win the series. We have shown the world that we can beat India in India. We have just got to play very good cricket. The T20 series is in the past. It is a whole new story now. India will try to bounce back and hopefully we will stop them," the skipper said.
