After South Africa suffered a huge defeat by 8-wickets and 5 overs to spare against West Indies in the first T20I, skipper Temba Bavuma feels his side depends heavily on their bowling attack and the batting unit needs to step up in the upcoming matches.

“Obviously disappointed. That's not the way we wanted to start. As a team, we have a lot to speak about. We don't have a lot of time. We have to come with a better plan. We thought it was a decent score, but below par. That's the effort we were able to manage with the bat,” Bavuma said.

“We were leaning quite heavily on our bowling attack. As I said, we got to have those conversations. We didn't capitalize in the second half of our batting. We knew they'd come out hard,” he added.

The right-hand batsman then talked about how they were trying to get back into the match as they knew the West Indies batsmen would be going for big shots.

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“Was trying to get as many dots as possible, get them to play those big shots, make the mistakes and obviously take them. They played well, Lewis and Fletcher got them off to a flier upfront and they never really gave us a chance after that.”

“It's a mindset thing, you can't change your skills in a day or couple of hours. Mentally, our tactics have to be more sound. We'll have to come with a better attitude and make sure that we focus on our execution,” the 31-year-old said.

While chasing a target of 161 runs, as the Proteas could only muster 160 runs in their quota of 20 overs, West Indies opener Evin Lewis provided the home team with a great start as he scored a super 71 off just 35 deliveries.

(With ANI Inputs)