"I am happy with the preparation" says Marizanne Kapp

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"I am happy with the preparation" says Marizanne Kapp

Marizanne Kapp in action. ©ICC

As the ICC World T20 is around the corner, Proteas all-rounder Marizanne Kapp spoke to the media about their warm-up match losses and their preparations for the upcoming event.



"I am happy with the preparation," Kapp said after their practice session. "Yes the games have not gone our way, we haven’t played the best cricket but I think we have learned a lot. There is a lot of positives to take out of it."



"We would have liked to win every single game but I’m a believer in peaking at the right time. I have seen in the sides I’ve played for – the (Sydney) Sixers (Women’s Big Bash League) and the Surrey Stars (Super League). The years we won was actually the years we started off so badly and people said that we should rather come back and try again next year and we ended up winning both of those tournaments after starting that way. I think it’s not about how you start, it’s about how you end."



Kapp is hopeful about their performances. "I think it’s just wrong choices sometimes and wrong execution rather than anything else. I still think we've played good cricket in patches but now it’s just about everything coming together on the same day and everyone performing on the same day. We need to make sure that all three departments fire on any given day. That is how we are going to be successful in this tournament."



"We’ve got some brilliant youngsters coming up and other bowlers like Klaasie (Masabata Klaas), she’s been bowling brilliantly so I’m pretty excited to see what she’s gonna do at this World Cup. It’s always good to have that backup, I know that if I struggle, we have quite a few bowlers who can put up their hands and I back the girls completely," Kapp praised the young bowlers.



While talking about tomorrow’s warm-up match, she told, "We would like to end off well. We would like to win the game but even if it doesn’t happen, it’s not the end of the world. We had the best chance of preparing for this World T20 so we have absolutely no excuses to not be used to the conditions by now. I’m excited to see what we do tomorrow and how we respond to Australia and the lessons we’ve learned in the other games. We’ve done all the hard work, it’s just about putting the pieces together. As long as we keep improving game by game, we should be fine by the time our first (tournament proper) game starts."
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