The Proteas have made amends for their abysmal performance in the T20 World Cup. White washing the West Indies in both the T20 and ODI formats will certainly go some way towards taking the team into a new era. New combinations have been tried, the top order have been in blistering form, but as good as The Proteas were in this series the West Indies were woeful. We need to be cautious in celebrating this victory.

South Africa have improved their unassailable lead to 4 with one to play as they have beaten West Indies by 7 wickets in Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica.

West Indies played a very well paced and balanced innings with runs from Dale Richards (59), Shiv Chanderpaul (66) and the Bravo bothers (46 and 45), set up a big total of 303 for 6 in their 50 overs. Their demanding total was quickly taken away from them with a superlative innings from Hashim Amla (129) and was given good support by Jacques Kallis (51) and AB de Villiers (57)

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first.

Amla and Smith were quick off the mark

Amla and Smith opened up the batting for South Africa, and were quick off the mark punishing Taylor and Rampaul in the first 5 overs of the 3rd ODI. Both batsmen looked on form, picking boundaries and chasing singles. Amla had played his part and was dismissed for 34 in the 10th over when he chopped a deceiving delivery from Benn onto his stumps. Smith’s wicket followed in the 17th by LBW

AB the Anchor

Hashim Amla may have walked away with his second man-of-the-match award in as many matches but Darren Sammy's eleventh hour heroics stole the show in Antigua last night.

Once more Chris Gayle won the toss and once more he chose to bowl first. Hashim Amla and AB De Villiers were in prolific form as they both raced to centuries in the first One Day International between South Africa and West Indies in Antigua.

Despite South Africa’s victory in the final One Day International against India in Ahmedabad on Saturday this series will be remembered for Sachin Tendulkar’s historic 200 not out in the second match in Gwalior. India held an unassailable lead in the series but the Proteas were keen to salvage pride in their final match of the season.

To lose a home series is massively disappointing but I honestly still have reason to feel quite excited about the challenges that lie ahead for this one-day team and our potential to once again become the number ranked team in the world.

The loss in Port Elizabeth hurt the whole team and we need to get that game out of our systems by Friday. We have to turn things around as quickly as possible.

The amount of cricket we play these days you have to get over losses quickly and we have shown in the past that we can do that and I think we should be able to do it again this week.

We probably haven’t done as well as we wanted to on the previous weekends in the series. We have been good on the Fridays but not so good on the Sundays so hopefully this is another good Friday for us.

The defeat to England in Port Elizabeth has given the squad extra motivation – as if any was needed – to do our utmost to square the series in Durban.

Responsibility is a big thing in international cricket and as international cricketers we have to take responsibility for our performances and I am sure we will on Friday.

The guys have taken everything on the chin after Sunday’s game and hopefully we will bounce back.

It will not be an easy task as England’s bowlers have performed magnificently.

I’ve managed to make some runs in two of the games so far which is obviously satisfying but, unfortunately, far outweighed by the fact that we are two-one down in the series after a horrible game at St.George’s Park.

We simply took too long to read the conditions and adapt to them. A couple of us at the top of the order got out to ‘soft’ dismissals – none more than me – which made things especially disappointing.