'Leadership came natural to me and it's a role I would like to grow into' - Sune Luus

Sune Luus doesn't mind admitting that captaincy is a role she has grown, and continues to grow, into.On the eve of the Women's T20 World Cup, where she will lead hosts South Africa in the opening game against Sri Lanka at Newlands, Luus felt firmly ensconced in a job she has held on and off since 2017 and ready to take on the world."It's always difficult being a stand-in captain, you're always one foot in and one foot out," Luus said. "But as I grew up I was always a leader at some stage in whatever team I played, so those leadership qualities came natural to me and it's a role I would really like to grow into."Every game you play, you get more accustomed to your team-mates next to you and what they want and what they need. Every game you play you grow into that role."Luus cut a different figure on Thursday to the one standing in when Dane van Niekerk missed South Africa's tour of England last year with a broken ankle. During that time, her team was facing the controversial retirement of Lizelle Lee, lost star player Marizanne Kapp for a portion of the trip and won just one match in the multi-format series after drawing the Test.Now, with a global event on her doorstep, Luus seemed understandably more upbeat and was positively inspiring, despite her side again being without van Niekerk, who failed the 2km run segment of her fitness test to qualify for selection. But Luus was willing to embrace the noise around her team leading up to this tournament as part of the job."It's just a reality, but at the moment I'm an official captain so it makes my job easier to take control and kind of stamp my authority on things and how I would like to go about things," Luus said. "It comes with a new dimension. It brings new challenges and difficulties but it's a challenge I'm willing to take on and accept and grow in that role. The focus is on cricket and that's where we'd like it to be."Luus has captained South Africa in 28 T20Is, winning half of them, while van Niekerk has a similar record with 15 wins from 30 matches as capta