Defiant Elgar leads Proteas to Test victory over India

After two years away, Test cricket at The Wanderers Cricket Stadium still tasted the same — of Joburg gold-dust and dreams made or destroyed.

Elgar was unbeaten on 96 with Temba Bavuma alongside him at the end of the Test match which the captain described, in the post-match press conference as “do-or-die”. A fine, batting innings to go with the 28 runs he scored off 120 balls which blunted the menace of India’s pace attack on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning .

After the match, Elgar spoke of the importance of victory, especially to a young team, some of whose members had never experienced a Test victory before. He said this helped them understand “what it means” but that it also cemented his place as captain and role-model. There is certainly a sense of emboldened hope for a new emergent Proteas team flowering out of the administrative and player wreckage of the past five years.

Keegan Petersen built on his reputation with scores of 62 and 28 in two tidy and compact batting displays that suggested he may yet develop into a solution to South Africa’s problem number three batting position — a vacancy never properly filled following the retirement of Hashim Amla in 2019. This is perhaps one of cricket’s more unfortunate partnerships, especially since the boundary around the Bullring features statues of the whisky brand’s eponymous figurehead: in coat-tails, riding boots and with walking stick in hand; tipping his top-hat nonchalantly to someone as if to convince them that he is not walking away with both Oliver Twist’s kidneys — while he does.

Well played Dean.

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