David Miller didn’t need to ‘make any excuses’, however he admitted that it wasn’t a really perfect scenario to journey forwards and backwards between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates for the Champions Trophy fixtures.
The South African crew left for Dubai from Karachi on Sunday afternoon and was again in Lahore on Monday for the semifinals towards New Zealand. “It’s solely an hour and 40 minutes flight. However the truth that we needed to fly out after the sport early within the morning and we have been in Dubai earlier than coming [to Lahore] at seven within the morning … it doesn’t make it good,” Miller mentioned.
Regardless of him scoring an unbeaten century, South Africa suffered a 50-run defeat towards New Zealand and crashed out of the event. However Miller mentioned that it wasn’t supreme to journey a lot in such a brief span of time.
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“It’s not that we flew 5 hours and we had time to get better and regroup, but it surely wasn’t a really perfect scenario, to be trustworthy,” he mentioned.
In a really perfect scenario, he would have needed to succeed in the ultimate and face India in what would have been a ‘rematch’ of final yr’s T20 World Cup remaining, the place South Africa suffered a slender defeat.
And on Sunday, when New Zealand performs India within the summit conflict in Dubai, the South African big-hitter might be rooting for the previous.