'We believe we can win trophies': Markram

South Africa exorcised their agonising semifinal jinx through an exceptional spell of pace bowling as they walloped an emotionally drained Afghanistan by nine wickets to enter their firstever T20 World Cup final hereMarco Jansen 316 Kagiso Rabada 214 and Anrich Nortje 27 ripped the soul out of the Afghanistan toporder while bundling them out for a paltry 56 in just 115 overs after being invited to bowlAiden MarkramDespite the early departure of Quinton de Kock bowled through the gate by impressive pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi the Proteas had little trouble in reaching 60 for one in 85 oversReeza Hendricks 29 not out who put up his highest score in this event and Aiden Markram 23 not out navigated them safely to the shores of victory as they have finally freed themselves from the painful tag of chokers in global eventsChallenging trackSouth African skipper Markram was certain that he does not want to play another match on the pitch here but was chuffed to see his side tame a challenging trackThe deck at the Brian Lara Academy Stadium offered considerable movement off the seamldquoIf we reflect back on this wicket wersquoll probably be pretty happy that wersquore not playing here again T20 cricket as a whole you want entertainmentrdquo said Markram in the postmatch press meetMarkram was delighted to see South Africa finding a way to win on a challenging stripldquoThe wickets that wersquove had throughout the competition have been pretty challenging Itrsquos hard to tell that a wicket is not good because it canrsquot just always be a batterrsquos gameAlso Read A look at South Africas painful past at ICC eventsTough wickets to bat onldquoHaving said that still taking the positives we can Wickets are tough So finding a way to win is probably the most important thingrdquoSouth Africa will now travel to Barbados for the final ldquoWersquove been doing it for most of our careers you jump from venue to venue where conditions are quite different So itrsquos again just adapting and playing the pitch and the game thatrsquos in front of youldquoWersquoll try to find ways to always take wickets with the ball and from a batting point of view try to get to a score thatrsquos defendable Both teams have to play on the same wicketrdquo he notedBut for now Markram wants to relish the feeling of entering a World Cup title clash ldquoThe bits that wersquore realising now itrsquos obviously a really nice feeling This teamrsquos been together for a long time now as a white ball group and itrsquos nice for us to get to a finalldquoWe feel and believe that we can compete with the best in the world and we can win trophies Itrsquos nice for us to now have that opportunityrdquoThe SA captain said winning close games in the group and Super Eights stages of boosted their confidence ldquoYou do get belief from winning close games and potentially winning games that you thought you werenrsquot going to winldquoIt does a lot for your changing room vibe So wersquoll take a little bit of confidence from that and see if we can put it to any use in the finalrdquo he offeredThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever