Dean Elgar
Dean Elgar Century: The Indian team will play the second test match against South Africa. In this match, KL Rahul scored a brilliant century for India. He scored 101 runs. Thanks to him, Team India was able to score 245 runs. Now Dean Elgar has scored an excellent century for South Africa in the first innings and South Africa have also taken the lead. Dean Elgar has made many great records in his name, having scored a century.
Dean Elgar did the amazing thing
Dean Elgar completed his 5000 runs as an opener for South Africa after scoring a century in the second Test against India. He is the fourth South African batsman to achieve this. Before him, Graeme Smith (9,018), Gary Kirsten (5,726) and Herschelle Gibbs (5,242) achieved this. Elgar presented a brilliant batting example. He is currently on 140 runs and South Africa have an 11-run lead so far.
Scored one goal in Test cricket in the 14th century
Dean Elgar has already announced that he will retire after the Test series against India. This is his 14th century in Test cricket. So far, he has scored 5146 runs in 84 Test matches for South Africa, of which 199 runs is his best performance. In addition, he has also played 8 ODI matches.
Africa gained a lead of as many runs
The Indian team had scored 245 runs in their first innings against South Africa after which South Africa scored 256 runs so far for a loss of 5 wickets. This leaves Africa with a slight lead of 11 runs based on the first innings. But he still has five wickets left. The African team didn’t get off to a good start when Aiden Markram was sent to the pavilion early by Mohammed Siraj. Tony De Jordi and Keegan Pietersen were dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah. But Dean Elgar stayed in the end. After 140 runs, he is present at the wicket. , He played cut and pull shots against the short ball. Bedingham also supported him well and hit sixes against Prasidh and Shardul.
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