JOHANNESBURG: South African Batting Consultant Justin Sammons on Wednesday praised Dean Elgged’s stubborn resistance to a frightening Indian attack, said the captain’s show with bats would be the key if the host had to win the Wanderers test.
Elgar remained invincible 46 at the end of the third day and during his challenging knock he received many evil blows including one in his helmet grille when the host reached 118 for 2 in stump, 122 run a shy of a level victory.
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“He is a competitor.
The thing he loves about the game is competitiveness.
The competitive nature of the Cricket Test brings the best of him,” Sammons said about Elgar during media interactions at the end of the day’s match.
“His role will be very important.
Having someone there for bats for the rest of the innings will be the key.” Just have someone with his character for the people who come, I think it’s massively important.
His leadership walked far in taking us to the line tomorrow.
“Chasing 240 on a complicated goal with an uneven bounce, Proteas lost Aiden Markram on the 10th but Elgar with Kegan Petersen wear a strong fight to leave the Indian bowler to leave for the second breakthrough.
Ravichandran Ashwin finally gave a breakthrough that ended the 46-run partnership But Elgar and Wicketkeeper-Batsman Rassie van der Dussen played that day to stay unbeaten at 46 and 11 each.
“Message for people who come in will see how morning playing and we just have to be adaptive.
“We need to go through the first hour and play according to the situation.
This is an interesting goal, not the easiest deck to jasmine.” “Needless to say, the task will not be easy.
Indian attacks have stopped.
But we believe we can chase him.
The way we struggled this afternoon, it was the case of the point there,” he said.
Their batter has shown a little positive intention after the Flop Show in Centurion and batting consultants blame it on a lack of test cricket over the past six months.
This is the first South African test series in six months.
They just played six tests under the new Elgar captain.
“Basics of the test cricket is about leaving the ball well and finally lead to knowing where the stumps off you.
After not playing a lot of red ball crickets playing a role.
So we have to make sure that people are related to the game.” It’s about the need to determine .
That is something we discussed at length.
We have to get out of various tentivity.
“It’s always easier to say than done.
People have come out and show positive intentions and there to see how they have done it,” he concluded.
Elgar will be the key to bringing us through the line, said Sammons
