South Africa stifled England with an ideal efficiency earlier than a 7,507-robust house crowd at Newlands to safe a spot in Sunday’s closing in opposition to Australia, after asking England to break their very own file for the best profitable run-chase at a T20 World Cup – they bought inside seven runs of doing so.
“There’s certainly things you can do better,” Knight mentioned. “The experience of playing under what was an awesome crowd was a great experience and I think the younger players in particular will learn a lot from that. A lot of them have played in front of big crowds, but when there’s so much on it and when it’s a World Cup semi-final, that does add to it.
“But I feel remembering, as a aspect, this match would not outline us. The manner we have made a mentality shift and adjusted the best way we would like to play somewhat bit, and actually tried to take the sport ahead, is one thing we needs to be actually happy with and we’ll hold religion in. In T20 cricket, typically you are going to lose video games sadly. And in the present day wasn’t our day.”
“The manner we have performed has actually been entertaining and it is actually the best way ahead to being profitable,” Knight said. “There’s all the time danger in taking part in that manner, but it surely exhibits that we have almost chased that down. That is the correct technique to go ahead. I feel we’re constructing one thing properly, clearly it hasn’t fairly come off in this match, sadly, and in the present day, however I feel the future seems to be brilliant.”
“We actually believed as a aspect that we may win,” Knight said. “The crowd behind them was actually an element, you actually felt it because the opposition. I feel they held their nerve fairly effectively. Their bowlers took it as deep as they might and picked up a couple of wickets, which meant the speed climbed fairly rapidly. They appeared fairly clear below stress.”
Amy Jones, who had contributed two valuable scores in the 40s in the previous two matches but fell victim to Khaka early on this occasion, said England simply failed to execute in the key moments.
“South Africa got here at us exhausting and in entrance of a house crowd actually placed on a present,” Jones said. “There have been occasions when it was in the stability and we began rather well for each innings and we have been forward of the sport, so the again finish of each innings is the place we misplaced it and in the sphere at occasions as effectively.
“Throughout this tournament we’ve said we want to put pressure on the opposition at any point and stick to our strengths, and in the field that looks like completely attacking the ball and throwing yourself around and supporting your team-mates as much as possible. We did that, I think it was just execution and, similarly at the back end as well with the bat, we took positive options and stuck to our strengths, but lost too many wickets.
“We needed to win this sport greater than something, however I feel going ahead, it is one thing we consider in, one thing that we’ll proceed to do and can stand us in good stead.”
Valkerie Baynes is a basic editor, ladies’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo