Whichever team wins will advance into the semi-finals of an event featuring the world's top eight one-day worldwide teams, with the losers eliminated from the "mini World Cup". We were beaten, not even by a better team; we just played our worst game of cricket in a while. We wanted to improve our fielding, it was something we required and before we went out we had a chat in the huddle and I said I wanted everyone's intensity to go up, that is a conscious effort we have to make. They put us under pressure and we never got going with the but and a bit unfortunate we didn't get it away.
"Through soft dismissals we lost our way, and that was the part for me that hurt the most".
"As a cricketer honestly for me personally, I crave games like this", India captain Kholi told a press conference on Saturday.
Monday's match in Cardiff - live on Sky Sports 2 from 10am - has become a virtual quarter-final after Pakistan defeated South Africa last time out and Sri Lanka stunned reigning champions India. De Villiers will then leave the United Kingdom, with du Plessis taking over for the Tests that begin in early July.
India entered the semi-final of the Champions Trophy in style, keeping its title defence alive with an eight-wicket win over South Africa at The Oval on Sunday.
Skipper AB de Villiers (16) and David Miller (1) were sent packing in the 29th and 30th overs, respectively, which saw South Africa reduced to 142/4.
Sent into bat by Kohli, South Africa were bowled out for 191 in 44.3 overs.
India chased down the total with 12 overs to spare with skipper Virat Kohli (76no) and Shikhar Dhawan (78) both hitting 50s.
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Duminy remained not out on 20 from 41 balls as he ran out of partners on the other end.
Jasprit Bumrah (2/28 in 8 overs) was on target with his blockhole deliveries and cleverly mixed short balls that did the trick.
The veteran batsman also expected his side's top order batsmen to put pressure on Indian pacers from the onset of the game.
After their slow start, Amla and De Kock began to tick over, only for the former to edge into MS Dhoni's gloves off the bowling of the recalled Ravi Ashwin in the 18th over.
"It was a good toss to win". Amla flicked him over square leg boundary for a six. "The bowlers stuck to their lines and got us the breakthroughs when we needed them".
Du Plessis and De Kock also had a steady partnership of 40 runs for the second wicket before things went all awry. But De Villiers' body language lacked conviction ' something that has also been apparent in his game which has given such enormous joy to fans across the globe.
However, he was more disappointed about the mix-up with Miller as both ended at one end.
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