Elgar guides S/Africa to victory

- South Africa captain Dean Elgar produced a heroic unbeaten innings of 96 runs to lead his team to a seven-wicket victory over India in the second test at the Wanderers yesterday. Elgar defied a hostile Indian attack and body blows from balls that struc

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) wanted to show our young group that sometimes taking the blows can be worth it.”

It was the first time South Africa had beaten India at the Wanderers and keeps alive their hopes of denying the world’s top-ranked team a first-ever series victory in South Africa.

“I felt we could have scored 60 or so more runs in the first innings and given ourselves a bit of a lead. That’s really where we let the game slip,” added India’s stand-in skipper KL Rahul.

South Africa’s Dean Elgar reacts after being hit by the ball on the helmet grill off the bowling of India’s Jasprit Bumrah as Virat Kohli checks he is ok REUTERS/Rogan Ward.