We know we’ve got to try and throw a first punch. We didn’t do that in the first test, it was almost like we waited for them to make a plan and then put ourselves under a lot of pressure with them scoring nearly 400 runs in their first innings, now we want to look to put them under pressure straight away. If we know if we put our best foot forward we can start to dictate the way the test goes.

Dean Elgar

Dean Elgar (born 11 June 1987) is a South African cricketer, who plays Tests and ODIs, and a former Test captain. He is a left-handed opening batsman and a slow-left arm bowler. Elgar captained the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2006. He now plays for the Northerns cricket team and Titans cricket team in the major South African cricket competitions. He was included in the Northerns team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. On 23 March, 2018 he became the second batsman after Desmond Haynes to carry his bat right through the innings on 3 occasions in Test cricket history.

All Dean Elgar quotes | Dean Elgar Books