Cricket-Lack of Test preparation no effort for the South African head of the WTC final | Mint

By Mark Gleeson London, June 8 (Reuters) – a lack of preparation for the final of the World Test Championships will be no problem for South Africa as they will tackle the Lord’s on Sunday, opener Aiden Markram said on Sunday. South Africa last played a test in January when they beat Pakistan to book a place in the WTC final and their hopes for an extensive warm-up last week were stimulated because their four-day match with Zimbabwe was largely rained. “Many of our series were two test series, so to win them, you can’t start slowly, so I think there’s a bit of it helping us,” Markram said at a press conference at Lord’s where the WTC final begins on Wednesday. “We know the importance of starting well, try to come up early before the game and how important each session will be, because there is no second dip at it.” We need to make sure we run the ground and are a nice and sharp coming day, “he added. South Africa qualified for the final with a seven games win, but also played seven Tests, so I had a long time every time. It is clear that Super is pumped to play Test cricket because we don’t play so much of it,” Markram said. South African cricket has a long history to get close, but to get into the limited outdoor tournaments, but Markram felt that it would not affect their first WTC final. have taken some good lessons out of it. (Editing by Christian Radnedge)