London — Dean Elgar is as old-fashioned as cricketers come and a damn straight bloke of the first water. He is a fella who tells you what he thinks because that is what he thinks. Perhaps they make them like that in Welkom. Perhaps his parents did a fine job raising him. Perhaps being part of a healthily robust dressing-room culture can do that for a player. Perhaps it is all of the above. Whatever. In the absence of the unavailable Faf du Plessis‚ the most assured captain in the game‚ SA could do worse than be led by Elgar in the first Test at Lord’s on Thursday. England will also have a new man at the helm in Joe Root‚ and if you wanted to be mean about the contest between the captains you could talk it up as the square-jawed versus the no-jawed. But there is no need to be mean. Root seems as proper a human being as Elgar‚ and in some ways Welkom is not a long way from Yorkshire. "If you take me off the field I’m quite a reserved and quiet guy‚ and if I get to know the individuals...
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