Bavuma moves on from T20 World Cup trauma after magisterial Wanderers ton: 'I'm past it now'

11.03.2023 - 23:03 news24.com

At the Wanderers Proteas Test captain Temba Bavuma said he's put the traumas of the early T20 World Cup exit firmly behind him as he and his team basked in the glory of long-awaited Test series success.Bavuma's charges brushed aside the West Indies by 284 runs an hour before tea on the fourth day to claim a 2-0 series win and retain the Sir Vivian Richards Trophy.The Test series success was South Africa's first in nearly a year after a drawn series in New Zealand at the start of March last year was followed up by a 2-0 home dusting of Bangladesh and consecutive series losses against England and Australia away.MATCH REPORT | Proteas crush Windies to seal series success, anxiously wait on Maharaj's serious injurySandwiched in between those Test series losses that cost the Proteas a place in the World Test Championship final was the T20 World Cup implosion where SA exited the tournament after losing their last group game to the Netherlands.Bavuma had cast a crestfallen and emotional figure in the OR Tambo International Airport and with him ascending to the Test leadership, he relinquished the T20 captaincy.He was in a far different space after celebrating his first Test series win as captain.RECAP | Proteas v Windies: Home attack completes demolition job in massive 284-run victory"What happened in Australia took place a long time ago, if I could put it that way," Bavuma said."In the reference to what happened in the T20 World Cup, I'm past it now.

It's happened and I've moved on from it."I'm here now and my mind is in a different space now. I'm happy with how my team has played and in the manner that we gained the victory."Bavuma missed the England tour through injury, but was again called upon to play firefighting knocks

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