South Africa coach Shukri Conrad has expressed his confidence in skipper Aiden Markram by saying that he is just a few games away from achieving the tag of "genius".

"I know it`s a different format, but in the World Test Championship final not so long ago, Aiden showed exactly what he is about. And I`m sure he is a couple of games away from unlocking that state of genius," said Conrad as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.

"If we want to be brave, we have got to select attacks to beat a team like Australia and if I can nudge a batting unit into playing a certain way where we are a batter light and I concede we were a batter light, imagine what they can do when we have got a properly balanced side," he added.