Markram: we wanted to bounce back

Proteas captain Aiden Markram admitted yesterday his team were disappointed not to have a chance to bounce back from a humiliating defeat two days earlier, after the third and final T20 match against England was abandoned without a ball bowled in Nottingham yesterday.

- Wesley Botton

In the first match of the series, the SA team won by 14 runs on the DLS method after rain disrupted play, and in the second fixture they were handed a shock 146-run defeat in Manchester.

With rain again pouring down, the series ended in a 1-1 draw.

"We took a lot of lessons from the second game. We've obviously reflected on it and we were excited at the opportunity to try to fix some of those things today, but unfortunately the rain came through and didn't really stop," Markram said.