NEW DELHI: "I think there's a lot of passion in this team to give our absolute all at this World Cup. Let's see how far it can get us. We're known to start pretty slowly, be it in a series or maybe world events, so we put a lot of emphasis on today's game," was Aiden Markram's reaction to his team having emotional outbursts in their facile win against Sri Lanka here on Saturday.
This South African team brought the tournament alive with their emphatic cricket and declared that they meant business over the next 45 days. "The way batters are playing nowadays, you wouldn't be surprised if that record is broken in this competition itself," Markram said of his record of scoring the fastest hundred in World Cup history.