Graeme Smith is pretty sure tactics are going to be crucial, Virender Sehwag wants a team packed with all-rounders to whip the opposition into submission while Shahid Afridi feels it is just the type of contest his team needs to boost its sagging fortunes.
The cricketing world is training its eyes on South Africa for a World Championship for Twenty20 cricket in the same year that has seen an off-colour World Cup in far away Caribbean, and in that, the International Cricket Council may well have played a well-concealed card to its maximum.
On the face of it, Twenty20 seems to be for batsmen who are able to cart the ball out of the park with ease, but slugfests are not what the format is all about. It might seem so because of the fact that it is a compressed limited overs version that enables set batsmen to score at 10 an over with ease. But just think, will not be a dot ball as important as a huge six in this game?