?South African cap­tain and mas­ter bats­man AB de Vil­liers says that the West In­dies is still a dan­ger­ous team, de­spite the fact that they were crushed by his out­fit in their ICC 2015 World Cup crick­et clash at the SCG in Aus­tralia on Fri­day.

The bril­liant de Vil­liers scored a re­mark­able un­beat­en 162 off 66 balls to lead his team to 408 for five against the Caribbean men. His leg-spin­ner, Im­ran Tahir, with 5/45 and Kyle Ab­bott, with the wick­ets of the dan­ger men Chris Gayle and Mar­lon Samuels, en­sured that the West In­dies were kept to an em­bar­rass­ing 151 all out in re­ply, record­ing their biggest ever loss in an ODI.

Speak­ing to the T&T Guardian de Vil­liers said: "I still think that the West In­dies are a dan­ger­ous team and we must not write them off in this tour­na­ment. They have some good qual­i­ty in there and al­though they lost bad­ly to us, they can still come back strong, not to be writ­ten off at all."

The right-han­der, who is prob­a­bly the best bats­man in the world to­day, says he feels for his young com­pa­tri­ot Ja­son Hold­er.

"I do feel for Ja­son, not dur­ing the game but think­ing about it af­ter you would re­alise that it is very tough for him. He would have days like that but he seems to be a strong man and I think he would come out of it. I re­mem­ber go­ing through those days, ear­li­er in my lead­er­ship stint, so it's all a learn­ing process.

"There are enough ex­pe­ri­enced men around him in the dress­ing room to speak to share and share their knowl­edge and ba­si­cal­ly take care of him. He is sure to im­prove with time and needs to un­der­stand that cap­tain­cy is not an easy thing."

Hold­er was bowl­ing very well un­til de Vil­liers came to the crease. Af­ter five overs, he had fig­ures of one for nine and end­ed up with he sec­ond worst bowl­ing fig­ures ever in an ODI and the worst by a West In­di­an.

On­ly New Zealand's Mar­tin Sned­den has con­ceed­ed more runs than him in an ODI.

Af­ter eight overs, Hold­er's fig­ures read 1/40 and at the end of his ten-over spell, he had none for 102 - 62 runs com­ing from his last two overs.

The young man did, how­ev­er, re­deem him­self some­what by scor­ing a half cen­tu­ry when the team bat­ted. (VM)