South Africa captain Aiden Markram reacts to their agonising ICC T20 Cricket World Cup final defeat to India. South Africa reached just 169 for 8 in reply to India's 176 for 7
Kensington Oval, Barbados, West Indies
Kensington Oval, Barbados, West Indies
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00:00So close, but exactly where did you, is it the death over bowling or the splendid catching
00:08by the Indians?
00:09Where did you miss out in that?
00:13It's not a specific moment, it's over a full game of 40 overs there, you look at a couple
00:19moments potentially where you could have done better, but all in all still proud of the
00:24performance we put together today in the final and to get close like that is something we
00:29can still be proud of.
00:30Can you put into words how tough that was today?
00:31I don't think I can say them yet to be honest, but yeah it's tough, this group is a great
00:43bunch of people, in my opinion deserve really good things that ought to go their way and
00:51had a really good feeling about this competition before we came here and then as the competition
00:55went on that feeling got stronger and stronger, so pretty tough to deal with now but it's
01:00sport at the end of the day, someone's going to win, someone's going to lose and we'll
01:06try to use it to fire us up for future events.
01:09How proud are you because your overall campaign was so good, your team is going to be so good,
01:29your bunch of wives are so promising, do you think it's going to take you to South Africa
01:30to be a great forward?
01:31I really hope so, like I mentioned a great group of guys that's been together for quite
01:34a long time now, get to our first final like I mentioned a few days ago is something we
01:40can be proud of, it's still in our eyes not good enough, you're not satisfied with making
01:46a final but still I think it'll take a bit of time for us to reflect back on all the
01:51good things that we've done but obviously for the time being it just hurts a little.
01:55How do you feel that the wicket played really well?
02:10Yeah I thought the wicket played really well to be honest, I think it stayed consistent
02:15throughout the game, I didn't really see it changing, a lot of our batters came off after
02:19getting out saying it felt like a really good wicket so hats off to the groundsman for
02:25preparing a wicket that he did, a great game of cricket to have a final like that on a
02:32good wicket, something in it for the bowlers, something in it for the batters and yeah just
02:36a good spectacle overall.