As steady drizzle and fierce wind gusts whipped through Arundel, South Africa made their way from Portsmouth in hopes of continuing their warm-up match against Zimbabwe only to see the best-laid plans go awry. Two of the three days have been lost to the weather and if any play is possible on the fourth, it will likely be used to get miles in the bowlers' legs. That means the batters will have to make do with their work from day two and upcoming net sessions and for batting coach Ashwell Prince , that should be enough.

"We trust the things that we've been doing. It's not as if you've got an exam coming up and all of a sudden, you've got to cram all these things in, or cram in some new things that you might not have thought of before," Prince told the media present at the venue. "We t

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