Top-order instability may or may not be a problem, Dean Elgar hedges
London — Nevermind what went wrong for SA at Lord’s on Sunday‚ how do they put things right for the second Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Friday? A week is a long time in politics‚ but the four days SA have to sort themselves out is next to nothing for a team trying to find a way out of the gloom that would have descended on their dressing room on Sunday. Off-spinner Moeen Ali added a haul of 6/53 to the 4/59 he took in the first innings‚ and England dismissed SA for 119 in their second innings to win by 211 runs with more than a day to spare. On top of that‚ Russell Domingo has returned home in the wake of his mother’s condition taking a turn for the worse, after she was critically injured in a car accident in June. Little wonder‚ then‚ that Dean Elgar tugged at an imaginary captain’s armband and handed it to Faf du Plessis sitting next to him at the post-match media conference on Sunday. Du Plessis‚ who will lead SA at Trent Bridge‚ chortled at Elgar’s joke‚ prompting the l...
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