The Proteas have played to somewhere close to their potential and beaten an elite opponent. Now they need to find a method to replicate that potency, writes Ryan Vrede.
Dean Elgar has revealed what he said to Kagiso Rabada after the opening day of the Wanderers Test, which helped to bring the best out of the Proteas fast bowler.
Proteas captain Dean Elgar led his team’s quest for a series-levelling win against India on the third day of the second Test at the Wanderers.
A career-best performance by Shardul Thakur enabled India to fight back on the second day of the second Test against the Proteas at the Wanderers.
Four years after impressing India captain Virat Kohli as a net bowler, Marco Jansen produced a destructive spell of bowling for South Africa on the first day of the second Test at the Wanderers.
SABC general manager for sport Gary Rathbone has explained Radio 2000’s decision not to cover the Test series between the Proteas and India.
Proteas fast bowler Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the Test series against India due to a persistent injury.
CSA and the BCCI have made a joint decision to “protect the players and the tour” by not making tickets available for any of the matches between the Proteas and India this summer.
No tickets will be sold for the first Test between the Proteas and India at SuperSport Park in Centurion from 26 December.
CSA director of cricket Graeme Smith’s lawyer, David Becker, says the process followed by the Social Justice and Nation Building (SJN) hearings was flawed.