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HAMILTON: Relieved South African captain AB de Villiers forecast Zimbabwe will cause upsets in the World Cup after his team upstaged their African rivals in a nervy start to the tournament on Sunday.

South Africa were indebted to a brilliant career best 138 not out by David Miller and JP Duminy's unbeaten 115 for a commanding total of 339 for four before restricting Zimbabwe to 277 all out in a 62-run win at Hamilton's Seddon Park.

Miller and Duminy lifted the Proteas from a nervous 83 for four during a new one-day international record stand for the fifth wicket of 256 .

I am very happy at the performance, we had a really good game today, said de Villiers as South Africa, bidding for a maiden World Cup title, made a winning start to their Pool B campaign.

But de Villiers warned Zimbabwe could upset one of the more fancied sides before the end of the tournament.

They (Zimbabwe) played some excellent cricket and I will not be surprised if they upset a couple of teams in this World Cup, the Proteas captain instead.

Reflecting on Sunday's match, de Villiers said Zimbabwe had made the most of winning the toss.

There is no doubt that played a good part in getting them ahead early on as it was a really difficult wicket to bat on in the first 15 to 20 overs.

It got easier and luckily David and JP made full use of that and played exceptionally well in that great partnership that won us the game today.

We have seen David demolish the attacks like that and he is capable of that, said de Villiers, himself one of the most feared ball-strikers in world cricket.

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