PROTEAS captain, Faf du Plessis, says they have taken some positives to build confidence from their brief outing in the drawn opening Test match against New Zealand at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead.
Du Plessis admits it was a disappointing end after an entertaining 100 overs of cricket, and hopes to carry the positives on to the deciding second Test which starts at SuperSport Park in Centurion tomorrow.
Said Du Plessis: “The one-off match is now a decider, we will have to be on top of our game. It’s back to the nets for us, we have done quite a bit of training over the last few days, even with the rain.
“Our team is in a good space, we were dying to get out there and play some good cricket.
“We have to focus on Centurion. It doesn’t normally rain during the winter, so we can hopefully have a good game of cricket there.”
He added: “Looking back to what we got, it was a good score after we saw how Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander bowled.
“We were disappointed not to get about 350. It would have been par on a wicket like that after we got ourselves into positions where we just needed one guy to bat a little bit longer for a 75 or 100-plus score.”
