The South African women’s and men’s hockey teams both suffered losses to England in the Investec Cup in London on Thursday.
The women’s match was a tightly-contested encounter with the South Africans going down 2-1, but the men’s side is left with a lot of work to do after losing 7-0.
“We have had very little time to prepare, and are using this tournament as preparation for the Commonwealth Games,” South African women’s captain said after the game.
“We’re pretty pleased with the way certain things happened in the game. We felt that in the first half we had great moments of control and many opportunities to score, so while we are happy with that, we are disappointed that we didn’t put our chances away.”
England, who thrashed Wales 8-0 in their opening clash on Wednesday, are already through to the final and now Cox and her side will look to claim their own win against the Welsh to book a rematch, having beaten Scotland 2-0 in their first match on Wednesday.
“If you look at our performance yesterday (Wednesday), compared to today (Thursday), I think that we definitely took one step forward in the right direction and we’re looking forward to playing Wales,” Cox said.
