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Maketa admits Proteas need to master all conditions before eyeing Test improvement

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Proteas stand-in coach Malibongwe Maketa said they'll have to be an all-round side with an ability to play on all surfaces after they were found out on placid pitches in the Test series against Australia.After being duffed in two days on a spitting rainforest of a pitch at the Gabba in Brisbane, the Proteas were roundly beaten on an even surface at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.On a slow Sydney Cricket Ground track, they needed to dig deep and got an intervention from the weather to escape with the draw.READ | Under-fire Proteas skipper Elgar still has hunger to take Test side forwardMaketa admitted that batting in South Africa has been proven to be a tough ask, something that left him wondering whether they should be lions at home and kittens on the road.However, he was quick to realise the approach can and will undermine the confidence of their batters.

In the 2-0 home loss against Sri Lanka in 2019 he witnessed it first-hand as Ottis Gibson's assistant."It's a tough one in the sense that pitches in India are foreign to us and they're difficult to bat on, but the stats do say that batting in SA is also very difficult," Maketa said."However, we've found a way of making that work for us, but the question is now that with the younger batters, do we expose them to better wickets to build confidence to make enough runs to perform at this level."Or, do we say we're the team that's going to win at home and make it hard for travelling teams?

Probably, that's the way we need to look at things.MATCH REPORT | Proteas show steel to earn gritty draw, avoid series whitewash against Aussies"We've come here and played on good wickets, but also looked at how our control [with the ball] will be challenged."Those are the things we need to

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