It’s not just belief that Mashimbyi has instilled in South Africa’s talented group, with Kapp revealing some of his team talks at training had provided further inspiration in their recent winning run.
“Initially in our first net session, all of our batters probably lost like 10 wickets in the first two overs we faced and then the coach just called us in and said, listen, just put a price in your wickets,” Kapp recalled.
“Even at yesterday’s meeting (prior to the semi-finals), I feel like coach Mandla actually made us feel relaxed because we had a totally different meeting with him.
“Just the way he’s been going about his business, everything was just different from that moment on.
“And I feel like this morning or this afternoon when we arrived here, everyone just looked so relaxed. So, it was a completely different camp.
“We didn’t really speak about the game too much. We obviously knew what we had to do and luckily for us it went our way today.”