Proteas medium pacer Ayabonga Khaka, who recently returned from a lengthy injury lay-off after surgery on her right shoulder, believes that if they do their basics to the Tea, there is no team that can beat them.

The Proteas Women are grouped with England, Thailand, Pakistan and West Indies with only the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals while India, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and New Zealand complete the second pool.

Cricket South Africa (CAS) has named a strong and experienced squad to do battle at the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup scheduled for Australia next month.

Bucs goalkeeper Wayne Sandilands is one of the players who have been a consistent feature in the Pirates squad since the arrival of Zinnbauer.

There’s been a revolution in the coaching space in Germany, the old generation of coaches relied more on a rigid style of play which was just concentrated on the basics and playing percentage football.

For a big team which hasn’t won some silverware in almost six years now, there was a concern that in Zinnbauer they seem to have attracted a coach who didn’t have good credential when it comes to lifting trophies judging by his track record in recent years in Switzerland and Germany.

Josef Zinnbauer was introduced in a very unusual manner by Orlando Pirates last month.

Zinnbauer also comes to a Pirates team that has been following a certain game model in the past two years under Sredojevic and Mokwena and he agrees that to change that to how he wants them to play its not going to be easy.

Despite playing good football and scoring goals under Mokwena, Pirates was undone by the sloppy and sometimes disorganized defending, this is something that was not prevalent under former head coach Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic as his team was difficult to break down and even came close to lifting the Absa Premiership title last season.

Prior to Zinnbauer’s arrival at Pirates, the club was conceding a lot of goals and their defensive organization was suspect.