SA coach Gibson won't quit despite WC disaster, says didn't get enough time to prepare

South Africa coach Ottis Gibson is in no mood to call it quits despite the team's dismal World Cup campaign as he believes that he did not get enough time to prepare the Proteas for the big event.

Gibson had joined South Africa as head coach in August 2017 but he could not inspire the team to make it to the business end of the World Cup and it finished seventh in the points table with three wins from nine matches.

Asked what was the biggest challenge of his coaching tenure, Gibson said: "Time, I would say. Having enough time to build a team. We tried the whole positive and aggressive brand of cricket but you need time.

"Sometimes it's not going to work but you need time for that to bed in, for people to understand what it is that you are trying to get across and for people to understand their roles."
"From my point of view, we have had a disappointing World Cup and if you take the World Cup in isolation, you might feel the need for change. But if you look over the last two years, we have done some good things as well. We'll have to wait and see how CSA look at the whole picture."
"All in all, looking back on it now, you feel like you just wish you had a little bit more time. But you didn't have that time. The World Cup was around the corner, and you had to deal with it."
"Trevor Bayliss came in in 2015 and he had from 2015 until now to build the team. Over the course of those four years, you've seen what he has done for the team."