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Commentator: Alex Winter
A remarkable record-breaking day here in Johannesburg. The end result is South Africa are 2-0 up in the series and head to East London to try and snap this series up. 1.30pm start, see you then, take a few deep breaths after this today...
I don't think we need the Presentation to see who is Man of the Match but it will be nice to hear AB de Villiers' thoughts: "Lots of credit to Rilee and Hash up front, it allowed myself to free up. It was always going to be a lot of aggressive batting around Hash. He's a world class batsman, he's making it look easy and taking the pressure off us. I had a lot of time to warm up in the changing room, thinking about how I was playing. I actually wanted David Miller to go in but Russell made a great call, he told me to go in. I played my knock even before I came out to bat, I really wanted to go today. I was on 92 when I knew the record was close and I wasn't going to take singles!"
What does poor Jason Holder make of that? "Tough game, AB took it away from us. We weren't doing too badly in the middle overs but he took it away from us. I thought we could have nailed our yorkers better. A lot of the seniors guys have helped me out these that two games and we can move forward. It was commendable the way Sulieman bowled today, hats off to him. Credit to the two guys who did well with the bat, that's something to work with. We just need to put this behind us."
De Villiers' carnage came off the back of a record opening partnership for South Africa which included a maiden century for Rilee Rossouw and a career-best score for Hashim Amla. But both those knocks were blown out of the water by de Villiers who blasted it from ball one and timed everything in sight. His knock included 16 sixes and the ball disappeared to all parts courtesy of some incredible strokemaking.
They didn't need to do too much in this second innings but South Africa have bowled pretty well, Dale Steyn especially, to close out a 148-run win. But it was of course the carnage in the first innings that set this up. West Indies in fact lost by one fewer run than AB de Villiers made! And of course he made them in just 44 balls, going past 100 in 31 for the fastest ODI century, it was quite remarkable.
A thoughtless remark nearly derailed the South African batsman's career before it began. And then he got five ducks
Unlike in baseball, where you could mistake Babe Ruth's slugger for a modern-day one, in cricket the difference in sizes and weights is mind-boggling - and harmful
AB de Villiers almost denied himself the opportunity to bat on a Wanderers' belter because he thought there was someone else who could finish off what Rilee Rossouw and Hashim Amla started with more of a flourish.
Stats highlights from an incredible day in Johannesburg, where AB de Villiers smashed the record for the fastest ODI ton
ESPNcricinfo presents the plays of the day from a record-breaking one-day international at the Wanderers
