Ashwell Prince says Proteas players need to take responsibility for their own performances.

The former Proteas batsman was speaking during SuperSport‘s ‘Wake Up and Smell the Cricket’ show just hours after South Africa’s humiliating innings-and-276-run defeat by New Zealand at Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

The Proteas were bowled out for 111 on Saturday, having been rolled for 95 in their first innings.

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“Eleven people go out on to the field but, ultimately, when you bat or bowl it becomes an individual performance as well,” Prince said when asked what needed to change ahead of the second Test, which starts at the same venue on 25 February.

“When you look at your top six or seven, in any Test-match innings you need two people to make a hundred for the team to score 350-400. It’s not always going to be two people but you need two people to stand up. In this particular match, New Zealand had [Henry] Nicholls and [Tom] Blundell, who fell just short [of a hundred].

“At the end of the day, as a player and an individual, you want to take responsibility.

“In that [Proteas] team, people have got to become hundred-makers. As a batsman, I have to be a hundred-maker. Looking good for a 40 or a 50, or a 60 or a 70, ain’t winning any Test matches. You might look good, you might look accomplished, playing beautiful strokes, but 60, 70 ain’t going to win any Test matches.

“People have to become hundred-makers, people have to become five-wicket haul takers. That’s how you win Test matches.

“You have two people making a hundred and then a tailender like [Marco] Jansen comes in and smashes like New Zealand’s tail did and you will have 350-400 on the board.

“People have to start taking responsibility. What is my role in the team? I’m a batsman. What’s a batman’s role? Put hundreds on the board.”