Cape Town - Cape Cobras
coach Ashwell Prince will not be taking the Knights lightly when the two
meet in their latest One-Day Cup assignment at Newlands in Cape
Town on Wednesday.
The hosts
are one of the form teams in the competition after winning four out of their
six games thus far to sit third - but the last-placed visitors are struggling.
They are
without a win in the first five games and need to turn the tables quickly if
they want to try and reach the semi-finals.
"They still
have some dangerous players and match-winners in their team, so there's no easy
teams," Prince reiterated. "Anyone can beat anyone in this competition and it's
the same with the Knights.
"We'll
assess them and see where we can pick holes in their team and try and expose
that."
The Cobras
are coming off a relatively good period where they twice beat the Titans, but also lost to the top-of-the-table Dolphins.
They
just-about scraped over the line in their last outing against the champions,
but Prince was pleased to have secured the points from that clash.
"We were
happy with the result and with the four points, we had a discussion after the
game and I guess in the end it could have been more comfortable," he said.
"We made it
a little bit difficult for ourselves after having the opportunity to close the
game out at seven or eight down.
"But on the
other hand others may have thought we were dead and buried at seven or eight
down and we showed good fight to go on and win the game."
The Knights
have remarkably tied two of their five games and lost the other three.
Their
biggest problem seems to be a lack of cohesion in terms of the different
disciplines - one department always seems to be letting them down.
However, coach
Nicky Boje remains optimistic.
"We still feel that we're doing certain things
right and we're not far away," he said. "We feel we're in it still, I mean two
ties in a week is unheard of, so we're positive.
And even though they are last on the table, their coach is remaining positive.
"We believe
and we're not going to give up," he adds. "You just can't do that. If you look
at how the results have been going in the last couple of rounds, it almost
feels that anyone can beat anyone and we know that."
Play gets underway on Wednesday at 13:30.