6) AB de Villiers (South Africa)
A batsman of breathtaking chutzpah and enterprise, as well as the skills and the temperament required to back up his creative intent. A fielder able to leap tall buildings and still come up with the catch. A wicketkeeper who is perfectly at ease donning pads and gloves.
De Villiers will be the Protea skipper whose main aim would be to win the ODI championship for the first time and remove the tag of “chokers” from them. In WC 2011, he was the 9th leading and South Africa's top run scorer with 353 runs in five matches two centuries and a half century.
In the ODI series in Australia he was the leading scorer there as well with 271 runs in 4 matches with a strike rate of 113.38 and averages 67.75.
He believes that his team has the capability to bring home the coveted World Cup trophy for the first time.
South Africa has never won the World Cup, or even made a final, despite regularly boasting one of the world's top lineups.
(ODI captaincy record – Matches 56: Won 31, Lost 21, Tied 1, NR 3)
South Africa squad: AB de Villiers (C), Hashim Amla, Kyle Abbott, Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Vernon Philander, Rilee Rossouw, Dale Steyn
