After South Africa’s recent series loss against England in T20Is, the current team coach, Mickey Arthur, is hopefully his young side will get better as it gains more experience.
Sri Lanka, struggled to put runs on the board, lost the the two T20I against England.
“Just not enough runs again. We’re coming up against a really good (England) bowling attack. They’re ranked No 1 in the world, we’re ranked No 9, and you can see the difference. We’ve started a journey with a young team and for us it’s about getting better, competing, learning from every game and every experience and getting better and better as we go along,” Arthur told the BBC.
“We can be more proactive and we’ve got to go back and work on that. We can walk around the crease a little bit more and try to do different things but our batters are learning all the time, particularly in these conditions. We’ve got a really exciting batting unit in our conditions but it’s about transferring those skills to conditions outside our own environment.
“I thought we bowled really well. Our fielding has gone up to another level. Fielding is all about attitude, it’s measurable, and I think the guys are getting better and better with that. We’re really excited with our bowling unit and we’ve got a couple of guys that are injured as well, so when we get them back we’ll be good,” said the South African.
Sri Lanka’s string of defeats in 11 games of their last 12 games since 2019 October and Arthur says the team will have to come out of its “own environment” to succeed.