Things just did not go our way in the final. We did not bowl well with the new ball and Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince played really well to take the game away from us.

    I thought we could probably chase down anything between 150 to 160 and I thought we were in the game when we held the Warriors to only 58 off the first 10 overs.

    But, we gave them 30 to 40 runs too many and it was always going to be difficult to chase down 186.

It is a wonderful feeling to be in the Standard Bank Pro20 final. We have had a pretty tough season off the field but all credit must go to my team for their efforts.

   Even though we are into the final we won’t be celebrating too much. I will say that we enjoyed the moment after beating the Titans but we need to stay humble because there is still one very important match still to play.

    I must give credit to Jonathan Vandiar and Neil McKenzie for the way they batted against the Titans.

What a great win for us against the Titans. We probably made it harder for ourselves than it needed to be but I think we deserved to win the match in the end.

    Before the game we would have taken 143 to chase but losing wickets in the middle of our innings put us under pressure.

    What should have been a comfortable run-chase became a bit difficult but all credit must go to Jean Symes and Robbie Frylinck for keeping their heads in that final over.

We are into the semis and I couldn’t be more proud of my team. The Lions have had a tough season off the field but I thought the boys showed great maturity and calmness to pull off such a tight win against a very good Eagles team.

    Before the game I would have taken 150 so to score 184 was great although sometimes, when you post such a big score, you have a tendency to think that the game is already won.

    I have to give credit to Morne van Wyk because it looked as if his innings had maybe given his team the edge.

    But luckily we managed to keep our cool to hang on.

What a great result for us against the Dolphins. The win means that we have our destiny in our own hands and if we beat the Eagles in Bloemfontein on Sunday we are into the semi-finals.
I have to take my hat off to the Dolphins. When they were three down with not many on the board I thought we might bowl them out for about 140 but Dave Miller played a superb knock to push them to 159.
Robbie Frylinck and Ethan O’Reilly did a good job with the new ball for us but the Dolphins managed to wiggle off the hook.

We have put ourselves under pressure for our next two matches after losing to the Warriors on Friday.
    It’s never nice to lose such a close game, especially off the penultimate ball, but we only have ourselves to blame.
    We were probably about 20 or 30 runs short when we batted but I must give credit to our bowlers who gave us a chance in the match but we just couldn’t pull it through in the end.

Our Standard Bank Pro20 match on Wednesday against the Titans was a great performance.
I think the match itself was very difficult for us, as we knew how important it was to win and especially given the emotions of the past three days with Neil McKenzie being relieved of the captaincy.

Macky’s been at the helm for the past six years so I could understand how the guys were feeling before the game but I told them to be professional and it showed on the night.

No one gave us a chance to go to the Titans and beat them in their own back yard as they’re one of the favourites for the title.