Legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis feels South Africa can "go deep into the tournament" despite their crushing loss to overwhelming favourites England in the World Cup opener.
Ben Stokes shone with the bat and ball besides pulling off one of the greatest catches in World Cup history to engineer England's 104-run thrashing of South Africa at the Oval on Thursday.
"It was never going to be easy playing England in the very first game but I've seen nothing to change my mind that South Africa can go deep in this tournament," Kallis wrote in a column for the ICC.
"They will be hard on themselves when they look back on the game, there were too many soft dismissals for my liking, but there was nothing wrong with their performance that cannot be rectified."
"But it also gives them the chance to establish some early momentum. When you've lost, you want to get straight back out there as soon as possible and it's great they've got Bangladesh on Sunday."
"Obviously, Ben Stokes's catch will get the headlines and rightly so, it was absolutely magnificent, one that will certainly live long in the memory."
"South Africa were well in the game for the first 20 overs of their response but losing Hashim Amla was a big blow. They'll be pretty hard on themselves with some of those soft wickets they gave away after that."
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