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Wiaan Mulder gives the South African reaction
We took away the fear of failure going into this innings. [The coach Shukri Conrad] had a long chat with us the other day and said basically, ‘We have to go for it. Whatever they set, we’re gonna get.’ If you look at us today compared with the first innings there was less fear of failure and an intent to score every ball.
[On the Markram/Bavuma partnership] Ah, it’s super-special. Both those guys have been through a lot of adversity over the last couple of years. You could see how drained they were as they walked off. It’s really special to see two guys who put South African cricket first do something special for us.
[On the pitch] Yeah I think it did [change]. It was quite slow today, the movement was slower than on days one and two and there wasn’t as much nip. Even when we were bowling this morning everything was happening really slowly. I’m glad we capitalised.
