adminCANBERRA. — Ireland cricket captain William Porterfield is confident his team will not be overawed by the mighty South Africans in Canberra today, saying they had made good plans to contain AB de Villiers’ side.
The Proteas, who have won all their three one-dayers against the Irish so far, are overwhelming favourites to win the Pool B encounter at the Manuka Oval that will bring them closer to the quarter-finals.
Ireland’s hopes will rest largely on how they keep the rival batsmen quiet, especially de Villiers, who smashed an audacious 162 off 66 balls against the West Indies in Sydney last week.
Porterfield admitted it will be a challenge to bowl to the South African captain and other batsmen like Hashim Amla and Faf du Plessis, but added the task to contain them was not impossible.
“You can sit all day and talk about him and different theories and plans and whatever, but you’ve got to stick with your best ball and how you go about things,” he said. — AFP.
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