South Africa captain Aiden Markram: “A lot of relief to get through to the semi-final.
“But I’m not going to be brainwashed by that, we’d have liked to be a lot more convincing in getting the job done.
“After the rain break, we felt the wicket was playing nicely and we probably didn’t just take care of little partnerships to kill the game. We were trying to kill the game too early.
“It’s been the story of our comp to get ourselves into tricky situations then by hook or by crook, get over the line.
“Chuffed with the win, it’s massive for us, but going forward, hopefully we can avoid those tricky situations.”
On critical moments: “I thought we bowled really well. We assessed conditions pretty well and kept them to a sub-par total, I would say.
“With bat in hand, we tried to kill the game too early. We’ll take that learning and have conversations in the changing room.”
On bowling so much spin: “We picked Shamsi and identified it as a possible opportunity for us.
“We thought we needed to bowl as much spin as we can on this track.”
On making the semis: “We want to be more clinical with the bat. Hopefully we can come to a nice conclusion.
“Whoever it might be, we’ll have to put our best game of cricket together.”
