There are some things that one should never look to invoke. One of them is the wrath of AB de Villiers. The South African batsman is perhaps the best batsman when he is at his best and he showed precisely that on a pacer-friendly environment at Cape Town.

At 12-3, South Africa looked down and out—but batting coach Dale Benkenstein confessed that it was the one over from the former captain that changed everything for the Proteas. He slammed Bhuvaneshwar Kumar for 4 boundaries in a single over to get the flow back in the favour of his team.

"Luckily our phones get taken away otherwise I would have been looking for an Uber to get back to the hotel," South Africa's batting coach Dale Benkenstein was quoted saying on Cricinfo.

"They are a quality bowling attack and that stage I was sitting there wondering how we were going to score a run. The genius of AB de Villiers and the tenacity of the captain, that partnership got us back in the game and got that belief back in the change room. I think it was just one over where AB just changed the game. He made the bowlers have to worry about their lengths."

The duo of de Villiers and Faf du Plessus blended exceedingly well as the relentless aggression of ABD was complemented by the steady rearguard action from the captain, who took his time to blend in. However, the general consensus among the batters was that they will be aggressive—and that is why South Africa continued to attack even after the dynamic pair fell.

Benkenstein added that since scoring runs would be difficult on a track like this, they decided to be proactive and score runs at a quick rate.

"As a general philosophy, as a batter you go out there to score runs, and on a wicket like that you're not going to get many opportunities to, so I would rather they are looking to score and then your last mindset is to leave or defend. They did that well," Benkenstein observed.