'We have to find a way' – Sune Luus

They are currently at fourth place in Group A with two points from the win over Sri Lanka, and have one more game lined up against bottom-placed Bangladesh.

Sune Luus, who sat out the game against England, said, “It’s never easy watching your teammates and your friends not do well but we still have another game tomorrow and we need to keep our heads up and be positive for that one.”

The problem for South Africa has been their batting. The signs weren’t good in the warm-up games, and in the main tournament, they scored just 76 against the Windies and 85 against England.

“You could see how desperately we wanted it – we all keep trying, it wasn’t as though they went out there and said ‘here’s my wicket, just take it’,” said Luus. “You can see that everyone wants to do well, you can see everyone tries to stay in the middle and get off strike and tries to hit the boundaries.

“It just unfortunately looks like the more we keep trying, the more we’re failing in this tournament and that really hurts everyone.

“It happened to me as well. You just really want to do well for your country and for your team, especially the management and the captain, who put a lot of time and effort into our preparation, it’s horrible for them, I can just imagine how they feel.”

In the last game, they come up against Bangladesh, who created a stir by beating India twice to win the Asia Cup earlier this year, but have struggled at the World T20. For them, too, it’s been the batting that has been a problem, as scores of 46 (Windies), 76/9 (England) and 72 (Sri Lanka) show.

“We just need to find a way, we need to stay positive. Bangladesh is never an easy team to play, they’ve got a lot of spinners so we need to counter-attack that. We’ll sit and watch our footage and work out our plans for them and make sure we are prepared,” said Luus of the fixture.

“We’ve got nothing else to lose at the moment so we’re just going to go out there and play without fear of failure. I think the most important part about tomorrow, if I bat, will be for me to just go out there and enjoy because dealing with all the pressure coming from all sides we lost our enjoyment of the game and we can use tomorrow to get that back.”