Kagiso Rabada’s appeal hearing had dragged on for more than four hours when Dean Elgar sat down to talk to the media at Newlands on Monday. Elgar had come to discuss the finer points of a series poised at 1-1 after SA’s rousing fightback to win the second Test at St George’s Park by six wickets. The series will resume in Cape Town on Thursday. But Rabada’s hearing was uppermost. Except for Elgar. "As players we don’t have influence over what has happened in the hearing or what could happen," he said. "But it would be nice to put it behind us. There’s been so much noise and I think people have actually forgotten that there’s such a great series happening between two extremely strong and competitive teams. "Whether KG [Rabada] is playing in the third Test or not, it’s out of our hands." Rabada is challenging the three demerit points he earned — and with them a two-match ban — for making contact with Steve Smith’s shoulder during the second Test. It was one white-hot moment in an inten...
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