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.

What a great feeling to be Standard Bank Pro20 champions.

    If you had asked us before the season we would have gladly taken one trophy but to do the double is something really special.

    We have been trying to put a perfect game together all season but we could not quite pull it off.

    In the final we did all three disciplines just about perfectly so we ticked all the boxes and the match we played was probably just about the perfect Pro20 game.

    Even though we had posted such a big total we were not convinced the game was in the bag at the halfway stage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Standard Bank Pro20 campaign is at an end and what a way for it to finish.

To lose by two runs is never nice. You end up spending half the night lying awake in bed, going through the game in your head, wondering what you could have done differently.

We did some things very well during the game and some things not so well but it wasn’t to be and I guess Lady Luck was smiling on the Lions a bit more than us.

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 did not end our Standard Bank Pro20 campaign with a bang as I had hoped but we took a young and inexperienced team to Potchefstroom and I thought we put up a helluva fight.
We got ourselves into all sorts of trouble on eight for three so to post 159 was a good effort.
All credit must go to David Miller. To score 90 off just 52 balls shows how good he is. He is a wonderful ball-striker and if he keeps working hard the sky is the limit.
Who knows, perhaps national honours may not be too far away.