“I don’t think it was any one particular thing that resulted in the loss, probably a couple. We could have handled the last 10 overs (while bowling) a little bit better. They got away from us a little bit.

“There was a period sort of in the middle of the innings where Kane (Wiiliamson) and Rachin (Ravindra) started to up their rates a bit. And we missed a few opportunities there,” he explained.

“…when we were batting. We were just starting to get going and that partnership got broken and really slowed us down in the middle and obviously we saw Dave (Miller) play unbelievably well in the end to get a hundred… you know you’re just one partnership away from doing something special,” said Walter.

With Williamson and Ravindra easily manipulating the bowlers, it seemed South Africa ran out of ideas.

However, Walter did not agree to that.

“No, I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. We certainly tried to change it up, we tried to change the pace. I think the ball wasn’t really gripping at that stage in the early phases, so the ball kept sliding on.

“I mean, it just plain to see that it was a pretty good batting wicket. I don’t think you can score 360 if it’s not a good batting wicket. So no, through no lack of effort, I don’t think,” he asserted.

Walter did admit to lapses in execution of plans “a little bit” but insisted there was nothing lacking in effort.

“…certainly you’ll never question the effort of the guys and we sort of threw whatever we could at them but unfortunately we couldn’t break that partnership which really set them up to push towards the end,” he added.