South Africa are ready to embrace that this T20 World Cup might be theirs to lose, after emerging as one of the competition's strongest sides with the knockouts looming. As the only unbeaten team in the tournament - and with comfortable victories over the co-hosts India and their semi-final opposition, New Zealand - South Africa believe they have earned the right to be considered title contenders. They are not shying from what that brings.
After their seventh straight win of the tournament, against Zimbabwe in Delhi, their head coach Shukri Conrad said: "I'm glad that we're favourites, because I've always felt that as a South African team, you want to be able to play as a favourite. It's easy being an underdog, you know. The expectation isn't that great or that much. Now we've assumed the tag (of favourites), which we don't really talk much about.
"If we can continue doing what we're doing, and [we] need a little bit of luck along the way as well, hopefully that will give us the result on Wednesday. And then, on to our home ground in Ahmedabad for the final."
Conrad said all that with a little bit of mischief in his eye and lightness in his voice - an approach and tone vastly different to South African coaches of the past, who would try to downplay their chances. That may be because he is the only one to have led South Africa to a trophy with the word "World" in it, when they lifted the World Test Championship mace in June.
However, the lightness of his attitude is more likely down to his perspective. Conrad is a realist, who told ESPNcricinfo that being South African forces him to see the world a certain kind of way, because "in our country, the minority are walking for pleasure but the majority are still walking to get to work". So, sport is what it should be: joyous first, a job later.
He is taking that view into the final four. "There's always pressure. It's what you do with that pressure and how you shift the pressure," he said. "It's really about embracing that pressure. And we don't do things any differently. We're going to prepare exactly the same way for New Zealand and whether we start that game as favourites, probably because we're the only unbeaten side in the competition. I don't know if that adds to the pressure. A semi-final is pressure enough. Playing a top side, New Zealand, is pressure enough. So there's no added pressure."
And even if there was, South Africa feel they've shown they can deal with it. The only game where they have been pushed in at this tournament was in the group stage, against Afghanistan, where they were taken to a double Super Over. Even then, they eventually prevailed.
That result meant that South Africa overcame a possible slip on the banana skin in what was dubbed the group of death. With two wins to their name, they went into the New Zealand match with almost nothing on the line. Since then, pretty much everything has gone their way.