Proteas legends Allan Donald and Herschelle Gibbs believe the current side have done the hard work already in the T20 World Cup, and momentum will carry them over the line in the final against India in Barbados on Saturday.
The veterans of past World Cup heartaches and near-misses singled out experience, lessons learned and the form of key players as South Africa aim to win their first-ever trophy at the global showpiece.
In major ICC tournaments, South Africa have only won the 1998/99ICC KnockOut Trophy (later called the Champions Trophy) as well as the U19 Cricket World Cup in 2014 the young champions also captained by Aiden Markram at the time.
But South Africa have never won a senior mens Cricket World Cup , though they reached the semi-finals seven times, in ODI and T20 cricket, before the win against Afghanistan at this T20 World Cup ensured they will play in Saturdays final.
Renowned fast bowler Donald and dashing opening batsman Gibbs both played in the 1999 World Cup semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston, which is probably South Africas most famous defeat of all.
