<h1>South Africa Easy Qualify for Quarter-Finals</h1>
South Africa moved into the World Cup quarter-finals with a routine 146-run victory over United Arab Emirates.
Proteas captain AB de Villiers top scored and was rejected on 99 after valuable commitments from Rilee Rossouw (43) and David Miller (49).
Farhaan Behardien impacted 64 off 31 balls to take South Africa to 341-6, an aggregate UAE never looked like arriving at.
Swapnil Patil scored an unbeaten 57 and Shaiman Anwar made 39 yet UAE were played out for 195 in 47.3 overs.
The triumph implies South Africa, who have never arrived at a World Cup last, will complete second in Pool B and, excepting stun results, will likely face Sri Lanka in the quarter-last in Sydney on 18 March.
South Africa commanded against a UAE side that has never beaten a Test-playing country in a World Cup however who shockingly picked to bowl first in the wake of winning the throw.
That choice exploded backward as South Africa made the eighth most elevated aggregate of the competition with De Villiers again driving the way.
He scored the quickest 150 in one-day cricket off 64 balls on some way or another to an unbeaten 162 against the West Indies prior in the World Cup and hit six fours and four sixes in his 82 ball-thump on Thursday.
Nonetheless, he passed up a major opportunity for his 21st ODI century when he cut the ball to short third man Amjad Javed off Kamran Shazad's bowling. De Villiers then demonstrated his capacity with the ball, taking 2-15 from three overs.
"It's never only a provided for you are going to make the quarter-finals of the World Cup, we have quite a few people we are speaking to back home and we have an incredible open door," said De Villiers.
"They made it troublesome so I was extremely content with the way we battled, which is the thing that I need to see as a skipper."