It is not easy to be out of the Standard Bank Pro20 but the guys did not play to their full potential against the Lions and if you are slightly off your game in Pro20 the chances are you are going to get beaten.

    I suppose some people will question if I made the right decision to leave myself out for the Lions match but we actually had four tough decisions to make.

    Faf du Plessis, David Wiese, Roelof van der Merwe and myself were all left out but that is the nature of playing for the Titans.

It’s never nice losing full stop, never mind losing such as tight game. But we made it hard for ourselves and we didn’t deserve to win the match after dropping about a million catches!

    I thought we batted pretty well but we let ourselves down in the field although I thought Faf de Plessis bowled superbly to pick up three wickets.

    We have probably played our worst two matches this season in the MTN40 semi-final and the first game of the Standard Bank Pro20 semi.

Well, after watching the end of the Proteas game against India, it’s obvious that Sunday was a day for Warriors and Titans all-round. It was great to see Steyntjie and Wayne Parnell fighting hard for the boys, and it was just a pity that they didn’t get over the line.

Back to our own game, we are obviously very ecstatic with the win over the Warriors in our final round-robin game, and it is pleasing to put two clinical performances together as we had a good win over the Eagles in the game before.

Beating the Eagles by nine wickets in Kimberley in our Standard Bank Pro20 match was an awesome performance from the team. It was clinical, professional and I couldn’t have asked for any more from the guys.
    What was pleasing is that we lost Roelof van der Merwe and Albie Morkel during the week to the Proteas but the new guys slotted into the team perfectly and I think it shows how much depth we have at the Titans.
   The highlight of the game was Blake Snijman’s knock of 89 and I can’t praise his effort enough.

Our Standard Bank Pro20 match on Wednesday against the Highveld Lions wasn’t a great performance.

I don’t think we really pitched for the game. With all respect to the Lions, the guys thought it was going to be a walk in the park, so in a way it was a good thing that it happened as it did, as it’s brought us back down to earth again.

We didn’t assess the conditions well in the beginning. If you’re three wickets down early on as we were, you’re always going to struggle to get a proper total, but we also played some shots on a wicket that didn’t warrant them.

I’m delighted with our Standard Bank Pro20 performance against the Cape Cobras on Sunday. It’s always nice to beat the Cobras because they’re a good side, but I think what you saw was a special individual performance from Gulam Bodi that basically won the game for us.

I thought our bowling was steady but the most important thing was Gulam’s knock. The way he was striking the ball was excellent and the Cobras bowling lineup is international class, so what he pulled off took some doing.

I’ll be honest; I am getting a bit sick and tired of rain ruining our Standard Bank Pro20 matches. Last year quite a few of our matches were washed out. I would honestly prefer to play a match and lose than not to play at all.

Even though we were only on the field for a short while against the Dolphins I thought we bowled pretty well.

To hold a side to just 28 runs off the first six overs is very good considering that teams normally score 40 or 50 runs during that period.

Ethy Mbhalati and Basheer Walters were good with the new ball and Albie Morkel did a superb job when he came on.