AB de Villiers strolled to the wicket on Sunday with South Africa stuck in an unfortunate situation in the fifth and last one-day universal against England at Newlands.
More than two hours after the fact he strolled off, unbeaten on 101, with South Africa having secured a 3-2 arrangement win with five wickets and six overs to save.
"You live for those weight minutes," said the South African chief.
"It's taken me years to feel great in weight circumstances like that and I'm beginning to feel like I have decent levelheadedness in those sort of circumstances.
"I'm truly glad for the self-control I had in the minute where I felt the diversion was hanging in the balance."
It could barely have been harder.
South Africa were 22 for three, pursuing 237 to win, and De Villiers himself had been surprisingly shy of keeps running, without a century in seven Test and four one-day innings against the sightseers.
It helped De Villiers that Reece Topley's staggering opening spell for England had not unstuck Hashim Amla, his kindred world-class entertainer.
"The visit was not to stress a lot over the runs and to ensure we got in and not to lose another wicket. We've done it before and I felt it was truly imperative for us to take it ten keeps running at once.
"I told "Hash" things would quiet down in the event that we get to a 50-run organization. We were readied to put in the hard yards."
The association was in the long run worth 125 runs.
Amla made a generally limited 59 off 93 balls and was substance to give De Villiers a chance to do the heft of the scoring before he charged a wide ball from Moeen Ali and was befuddled.
De Villiers went ahead to make his 22nd one-day worldwide century and batted for 97 balls, hitting 11 fours and a six.
The win finished an amazing turnaround for South Africa after they had been well beaten in the initial two matches.
For the third progressive match, an English batsman made a century yet completed on the losing side.
Opening batsman Alex Hales hit 112 yet needed noteworthy backing from his buddies as England were played out for 236 in the wake of being sent into bat.
Hales' second one-day worldwide century topped a fine arrangement for the tall right-hander, who had made fifties in each of the past four matches, including an innings of 99 in the second diversion in Port Elizabeth.
He completed the arrangement with 383 keeps running at a normal of 76.60 and was named man of the arrangement.
Joe Root (27) and Ben Stokes (29) were the main other England batsmen to achieve 20.
Britain mentor Trevor Bayliss said handling was the contrast between the two groups, alluding particularly to vital dropped gets in the fourth match in Johannesburg where South Africa kept the arrangement buzzing with a one-wicket win.
"Both groups depended on a few batsmen and the playing was fundamentally the same," said Bayliss. "They're a superior handling group than us right now."
The England mentor said he was content with the advancement being made by a youthful side however recognized that they had once in a while been discovered needing in weight circumstances.
"We've unquestionably got some work to do there without a doubt yet that will accompany experience," said Bayliss.
"Eventually that experience must pay profits. Ideally the folks will gain from the experience of playing against somebody such as De Villiers and the way he went about his innings today."
Britain commander Eoin Morgan conceded that England were outflanked on Sunday.
"We did have risks before in the arrangement to win it however we weren't exactly ready to take the open doors that came. We're a youthful side, we made open doors yet it wasn't exactly enough."
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