Pre-match Press Conference Highlights for South Africa v Bangladesh

On playing South Africa:

"In a one day match anything can happen, so we want to play good cricket."

On being a young team:

"We have some young cricketers who have come through and they've done well and I hope they do well tomorrow."

On being made captain:

"It was a suprise and it brings pressure, but I don't feel the pressure because of the players around me."

On RAJIN being made captain:

"He's been vice-captain in our last three series and it was probaby the logical step up for him. In the past three series the have been matches when he's stepped up and captained the team, but the support he's got from the other senior players has been wonderful."

"He's fully attacking and leads by example. This kid would run through a brick wall for you."

"It's another game fo him. It may be his first as captain and the youngest captain of Bangladesh. But we have a job to do tomorrow and he has to work at it."

On South Africa:

"Their confidence can't be good. It's not often they've played in a five one day match series and lost all five, so it can't be that good, but they're probably pretty happy that they're playing Bangladesh and no matter what we say we're still ranked down the bottom."

On their own tactics:

"We have our little reasons for playing and trying to perform as well as we can and to be as totally relaxed as possible."

"A lot depends on what we do first, batting or bowling. But in many ways it doesn't matter, you just have to be up for the game and we've had five full matches, which was a pretty good competition lead up and lost the one against Scotland. But our boys are in competition mode in pretty similar conditions."

"I want to win. There's always positives to come out of any game. but we go out in every match to win. We feel if we totally relax, let our natural ability take over and enjoy the contest, we will be in good competitive frame of mind to push the opposition as much as possible."

On the team spirit:

"The spirit is good and the morale high. We exposed three youngsters through the under-19s and that's been a wonderful knock-one effect for the whole team."

On playing Bangladesh first:

"I think that it's really important fo us to put in a really dominant performance. We definitlely won't take Bangladesh for granted. We want to come out and out in a really dominant performance. We know whether we've done the processes right, whether we've played or haven't."

"It's a crucial match for us and you don't want to let yourselves down against the weaker team in the group. We know our recent form hasn't been good, but we come here with our pride a little bit dented and are really hungry to put in a really big performance at this tournament."

On South Africa's morale:

"The recent run hasn't knocked my confidence, if anything it drains you a little bit more. You're spending a lot more time with guys. As a capain your man-management becomes more important, so you spend a lot more time with individual guys making sure they're prepared and ready for games and mentally in the right state."

"I believe I can do great things with team. I'm still feeling very strong and very confident about the captaincy and I'm sure we'll get out of this situation pretty strong."

On their recent form:

"Once you get into a rut you try harder and you sink a little bit more, which we found in Sri Lanka. We want to get our enjoyment back in our cricket. You want to get your enjoyment back, but you have to get the right things right. In Sri Lanka we played a lot of rusty cricket and didn't get the basics right and we let ourselves down in crucial situations."

On the pitch:

"It looked like a pretty good wicket. It didn't do as much as what we expected yesterday. It's probably got a bit of wear and tear on it that we have to take into consideration tomorrow when we arrive here."

"We all know he's a superb cricketer. He is crucial upfront and if he's playing well and dominating attacks he can get the bowling on the back foot."

On the openng batsmen:

I think it's very important for your first four to set up the core of the innings especially in England at this time of year. You don't want to be three down or four down early on and under pressure and trying to recover.