South Africa will try to keep NY’s Bangladeshi crowd ‘Quiet’
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South Africa skipper Aiden Markram on Sunday admitted that batting on a “slow and fresh” Nassau County pitch has been tough, and wanted his side to revisit the strategies to score runs on the surface against Bangladesh on Monday.
“We've luckily had the privilege of playing two games now on the surface and at this venue. Hopefully, it can give us even clearer plans. And we can develop plans from a betting point of view how to get to a score of maybe about 140. And if we do that first, and hopefully then our bowlers can do the rest,”
South Africa have won both their matches here, but not without struggle. They chased 78 against Sri Lanka in 16.2 overs, and it took 18.5 overs for them to scale down 104 against Netherlands.
Bangladesh hope that they will be able to put up a tough fight and South Africa captain also know that the boost up Tigers can give them a challenge.
“That would be fantastic. That's sort of the first box that we want to take. But again, you look at conditions, you look at a really strong Bangladesh team, and it's gonna be a proper Challenge for us.”
In New York there will be numbers of Bangladeshi fans to cheer for the team and Markram knows exactly how to handle that pressure.
“There will be lots of Bangladesh supporters. I'm sure, I think we've been doing it now for long enough that it's all my second nature you just zone into what's happening inside the boundary ropes and then putting a lot of focus on that. A crowd cheering obviously will give away a lot of which team has the momentum. So if they pretty quiet and it means we're doing well. So we'll draw drive that message and try keep the crowd as quiet as we can” he added.
