South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada is hopeful that with a positive approach and with players having worked out their mistakes in the nets after a close defeat against Australia in the first match of their Super 12 encounters in the T20 World Cup 2021, the team can bounce back. South Africa next play West Indies on Tuesday in Dubai.
“They're a dangerous team. You can't underestimate anyone,” Rabada said about the West Indies in a pre-match press conference on the sidelines of the big game. Tomorrow is a new day. We're going to have to go and be as disciplined as we were in our first game [with the ball]. We cannot take anything for granted,” he added.
South Africa were indeed very disciplined with the ball, however, it was their performance with the bat that disappointed their fans. Getting to only 118 in 20 overs was never going to be enough. Talking about learning from mistakes, the 26-year-old said that having an ideal game is not an easy thing to achieve and that the players have worked in nets on their mistakes.
“It obviously wasn't the ideal start with the bat, and rarely do you ever have a perfect cricket game, although you would want both departments to balance out or balance each other out. We've analysed what we have needed to do, and the guys are on it at the training grounds,” said the fast bowler, who scored crucial 19 runs with the bat to get his team past 100 runs total which looked difficult at 83-7.
“It's just one game that we couldn't get over the line. Tomorrow is another day. Why be negative about it? Be positive. Whatever happens, happens,” he added, sounding hopeful of a turnaround in Dubai.