Proteas are a top team with quality players: West Indies skipper Kraigg Brathwaite

“This series won’t be easy because we know South Africa is a tough team at home, but we are looking forward to playing positive Test cricket and make everyone in the West Indies proud,” Brathwaite said.

The West Indies will go into the series after a successful single Test match in Zimbabwe.

“[South Africa's Test series against] Australia is history and our Test series against Zimbabwe, we obviously played a team of different calibre and it was good to get a series win,” Brathwaite said.

“I think looking here, into this South African team, they have a lot of experience and they’ve classy bowlers and quality batsmen.

“Zimbabwe are not the top team in the world and we are looking forward to challenging ourselves here.

“We know what we have got to do to improve as batsmen. We are looking forward to this series.”

Play at SuperSport Park will start at 10am. 

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