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.

It was a bit of a disappointing end to our round-robin campaign against the Titans on Sunday, but I think it was just one of those games where not much went right for us.

We would have liked to keep them down to about 160, but unfortunately they played very well on a great wicket.

As far as our chase was concerned, we just never got any momentum going. I don’t think the guys took it a bit easier because we were already through, because we always play to win every game.

I guess it was just one of those days.

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.

It is never nice being on the receiving end of a nine-wicket loss but we probably only have ourselves to blame.
    The wicket did not play how we expected it to and by the time we readjusted we were already too far back in the game.
    I must give credit to the Titans’ bowlers who summed up conditions really quickly and they put us under a lot of pressure.
    We also ran into an in-form Blake Snijman who made batting look a lot easier than it actually was on that pitch.

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 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.

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.