Dean Elgar’s guts shone through in South Africa’s win over India in the second Test match. If India breached the fortress of South Africa at the Centurion it was the Proteas who stormed India’s fortress away from home, the Wanderer’s Cricket Ground in Johannesburg. This was India’s first loss at this venue in all the tours to this country since 1992.

Elgar finished unbeaten agonisingly close to a Test century, but the win would have more than made up for the missing out on a Test match ton. As South Africa got closer to victory there was a chance if he had got more of the strike for him to get to the three figure mark. Temba Bavuma hit a brilliant boundary just then and that meant that Elgar would remain short of the century.