The sandy Captain Elgar approach to the opening has ensured this series awarded Testask Cape Town Ravichandran Ashwin, Cheteshwar Pujara or Rahul Dravid about Dean Elgar, and the answers you will get almost the same! “It seems like he will come out of the next ball, but he doesn’t,” the three will say do it during the second test.
And at the end of the day, the South African captain still stood upright.
On a wanderer four years ago when India recorded their famous ‘turnaround’ victory, it was Elgar who brought bats on difficult tones.
It was a kind of action replay on Thursday too, only Elgar was finished on the victory side.
This victory is very large for South Africa, who has found success difficulties in the following transition period after retiring their superstar Ab de Villiers, Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and the latest, Quinton de Kock.
It would be easy for any team experiencing a big change to be completely destroyed by quality side like India.
But Elgar ensured that this series 1-1 entered the final test at Cape Town.
Elgar had taken this pension blow in his chin, just as he had taken the bodies to blow Indian Pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Shami Mohammed in the bullring.
He looked awkward at times, took the blow on his body, but Elgar had a simple philosophy.
“When it was about me, I can’t get out.
Some call the approach like that stupid, some say it’s brave, I will take the last …
and I believe if I can do it for the team, my teammate must also do it, “Elgar said after 96 * match winners on Thursday.
On a difficult tone, it was a real exhibition that leads from the front and the 34-year-old said that it was something that came naturally to him.
“Leading from the front is the one thing I like to do even as a school child.
It makes my job easier and it makes it easier for children in the dressing room to follow me too,” Elgar said.
While in the second round of the first test, India found it difficult to drive it out, in both innings in Wanderers he made an important contribution.
Elgar said that the main goal as an opening was to survive 40 overs so that the new ball was taken care of.
“It doesn’t matter how much I scored.
And I know it won’t happen every day …
But this is something I always try to do,” the appetizer, who had become a thorn in Indian meat, said.
That might be the reason why he had brought his home three times in a test match, while he considered his own appearance in the second test between the top tested.
“It’s up there …
but I didn’t play for awards, I played for a teammate and to win.
This is a special victory and I don’t want to exclude my team-mate shows from this victory,” said Elgar, the captain inside He came to the fore.
That’s the command of the team that Elgar can even have the only superstar in the team, Kagiso Rabada, and discuss it in public.
During the second test, he had a strong word with Paceman when he felt that he was “a bit too relaxed”.
“I told him that he did not do his best to himself.
I feel he lacked a value because his appearance in the dressing room was very large.
Yes, it was a difficult conversation and how well he responded.” Elgar is not words.
For now, the captain is enjoying a success moment, but he knows that the biggest battle will be in Cape Town.
And he promised to make it as difficult as possible for India to conquer their ‘last border’.
It must be seen if Indian Bowlers found a way to deal with the surrounding team captain who wanted to be a serious force in the cricket world again.