South Africa’s stand-in T20 skipper JP Duminy made an honest assesment of the loss to India in the ODI series, saying that the defeat was a “great reality check for us”. He, though, hoped that fresh faces and an aggressive mindset in the Twenty20 series would help his team counter the Indians much better.
“Yes, it has been a dismal one-day series for us where India have outplayed us. That’s something that we will have to take on the chin and realize that we are far from a finished article going into the World Cup a year from now” he said.
“I think it is a great reality check for us. It is about each and every player seeing themselves in the mirror and how they can improve, to try and stake a claim for that 15-man squad in a year s time,” said Duminy.
“I think the new faces will help. It is something that we spoke about this morning that we will feed off the freshness of new faces around. The format is different. It is a quicker and more aggressive format. And it will naturally bring out the best in us,” he added.
After being outclassed in one-dayers, South Africa have completely revamped the T20I squad including as many as six new players in the 14-man side which will face India in the T20I series starting with the first game in Johannesburg on Sunday.
