‘Playing Australia on their home soil is not always easy, but SA showed grit and fight throughout’, says Moreeng

Perth, Feb 19 (IANS) South Africa women’s head coach Hilton Moreeng reflected on the team’s performances on their recent all-format tour of Australia, stating the visitors’ showed grit and fight throughout despite things not being easy for them to face the hosts’ on their home soil.
South Africa achieved their first-ever T20I and ODI wins over Australia, though they lost the series. They also played their first-ever Test match against Australia at the WACA Ground, where they suffered defeat by an innings and 284 runs.”There’s been a lot of good. You can only be proud of what they’ve shown. Playing Australia on their home soil is not always easy, but they’ve shown the grit and the fight throughout. This ranks as one of the best we’ve had because of the fight that we had to keep showing.”Every time we had our backs against the wall, we had to keep fighting, somebody had to pull through and be able to come back with the wins that we did. So I think you can only build on that and take a lot of confidence out of this. Super proud and for us as a team, we can just go back and just make sure that we can keep improving on our shortfalls,” said Moreeng in a