The Titans returned to their home ground seeking a victory in the second Standard Bank Pro20 semi-final against the Cobras, after losing the away leg in Cape Town.

The Titans could not have gotten off to a worse start as they lost Davids off the first ball of the innings, soon van der Merwe was sent packing with the score on 9 for 2.

Behardien joined Jacques Rudolph at the wicket and they very quickly built a partnership. Rudolph anchored the partnership while Behardien pushed on, going to his half-century off just 22 balls. Behardien eventually fell for 69 off 42 balls.

Sahara Park Newlands has long been synonymous with family, friends and entertaining cricket. The opening Standard Bank pro20 between the local Cape Cobras and the Titans from up north was no different.

Despite a sunny day in Cape Town, Newlands cricket ground, as usual, had its own climate. It was rather chilly and quite windy, but that didn’t stop the supporters of coming out to watch the game and when a wicket fell off the first ball of the match, we all knew that we would be set for thrill-a-minute kind of stuff.

Standard Bank wishes to thank Graeme Smith for his exemplary service as captain of the International Pro20 team. We have enjoyed a fruitful and professional relationship with Graeme, not least in his capacity as captain in the many international twenty-over events held in South Africa: the launch of International Pro20s in October 2005, as well as the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 event in 2007.

Bangladesh, for so long the perennial whipping boys of international cricket, will be hopeful of changing that perception when they arrive at the ICC World Twenty20.

    However, they will have to achieve that on the back of precious little international T20 cricket.

    Since the last World Twenty20 in 2009, in which Bangladesh lost both their matches, to India and Ireland respectively, they have only played two international T20 matches.

    They lost to West Indies in August last year before being thumped, by 10 wickets, by New Zealand in February.

    There can be no doubt about the sincerity and determination of Zimbabwe cricket to reclaim its place amongst the world's elite nations.  

   The appointments of Alan Butcher as head coach, alongside former national captain Heath Streak as bowling coach and Grant Flower as batting coach, are ample proof that no expense will be spared to reclaim the once proud status of  "underdog but potential giant killer".

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.