Temba Bavuma vows Proteas will learn from semifinal heartbreak

South Africa's ICC silverware drought won't be ending just yet, after another promising tournament ends with the team falling agonisingly short of glory.

It's a trend the Proteas are bravely trying to confront head-on, demonstrated by their captain Temba Bavuma's willingness to reveal exactly what they need to work on for when they're next in a position to strike.

It comes as New Zealand claimed their Champions Trophy semi-final match-up with South Africa by 50 runs in Lahore. It was the Proteas' only defeat of the tournament.

"It's just those moments," Bavuma told the press after the match.

"Just being a little bit more decisive in those moments (was what went wrong), not giving the opposition a chance to get back into the game. Be ruthless and really go for the game.

"So, I think for me, personally, we'll obviously have a chat as a team and see what the other guys think. But just taking care of those key moments in the game."

Bavuma also took personal accountability, after he was unable to turn a solid innings into a big one – a problem a couple of the Kiwi top-order batters didn't have, after both Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson both scored centuries at better than a run-a-ball.

"From a batting point of view, we just weren't able to [build] those partnerships," he continued.

"There were one or two partnerships there, but I think we probably needed either myself or Rassie van der Dussen to go on and emulate what [New Zealand's] top four batters did. A little bit of a soft dismissal from my [perspective].

"Ideally, we would've wanted both of us to keep going, at least to the 30th over, we know how destructive our middle order can be, unfortunately we weren't able to set that foundation for them. That just left a little too much for our middle order to do in the end.

"[The 363 run target] was always going to require someone to play well, and we had David [Miller] that did that, but we probably needed someone else as well."

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