AB de Villiers
Jun 17 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

This was the ignominy unexpected. Yet India lost all three of their Super Eights match, the final one against South Africa at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in the final Super Eights match of the ICC World Twenty20 in England.
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