Ind vs SA| India tour is challenging in many ways, admits Dean Elgar
South Africa opener Dean Elgar has opened up about getting 'stretched' as a cricketer during what has been a challenging India tour, part of which included visiting smaller places and staying in sub-par hotels. India leads the World Test Championships table with a comfortable 200 points.
South Africa opener Dean Elgar has opened up about getting "stretched" as a cricketer during what has been a challenging India tour, part of which included visiting "smaller places and staying in hotels" that are not that good. After managing a 1-1 draw in the T20 series, South Africa suffered massive defeats in the first two Tests of the three-match series against a dominant outfit under Virat Kohli’s leadership. Elgar believes coming to India is “always a good learning curve”.
"It's a challenging tour. You get stretched as a person, you get stretched as a cricketer, I think you get to know yourself quite a lot as a person when you come to the smaller places where the hotels are maybe not as good, and you get challenged on the field," Elgar said to the PTI.
The introduction of the World Test Championship means South Africa still has "quite a lot to play for" as 40 valuable points are still at stake in the third Test despite conceding the series, Elgar said. Elgar, who became the first South African batsman to score a hundred in India after nine years during the opening Test, said the Proteas are going through a challenging time in India but are “trying to be positive.”
"We still motivate everyone within our squad. It has been a challenging few weeks but it's still not too gloomy for us. We are upbeat, the morale in the camp is still very good. We still have one game and we can actually change quite a lot. We are still pretty hopeful and pretty positive going into the last Test," he asserted.
The comprehensive victories against the Proteas have consolidated India's position in the World Test Championship table, even as the struggling South Africa batsmen surrendered yet again. India now have 200 points in its kitty which is a handsome 140 points away from the nearest rival New Zealand.
"Hope we score a lot of runs. In the second Test, we forgot a few basic things we did in the first Tes," he concluded
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