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born 1987 South Africa
Dean Elgar (born 11 June 1987) is a retired South African professional cricket left-handed opening batter. He represented South Africa from 2012 to 2024, scoring 5,347 career runs in Test matches, the eighth-highest of all time for the team.
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He is a very talented batter and needs to turn those 30s-40s into hundreds. And then, he can be on his way. He is not far from being a very good Test cricketer.
From my childhood, I guess. I have always had to work hard.
It's my time now to call it quits on a pretty long and successful career
It hasn't been that easy for him, and I think he is still trying to finalise a Test XI, or finalise a squad of players to work with.
In Test cricket, as a player, he needs to work hard on his game but he is just one innings away from realising his potential as a Test batter.
The conversations we have had in the past have been good from an educational point of view. It’s still a work in progress.
They are far greater than any cricket team I could ever represent
. My character off the field is totally different to the character on the field. I am not there to make friends on the field.
Even in the backyard, I would refuse to let the adults get me out. Childhood plays a massive role in the kind of person you are.
We mustn’t stop learning about each other. We have to sit down and listen more. Listening is such an important skill in my role.
I feel it's the right time for me, and more importantly for my family
And then we also had a change of coach and that requires the buy-in of players, so it has been a little bit of a roller coaster.
I felt anxious to make an extra play, and there were times when I thought if I just hung around a little longer I could have broken the opposition
I think we went through two or three different phases as a team where we had retirements, then injuries, and then new players coming in. It's been like that for the last five years.
My goal was always to fulfill the three years. There were maybe occasions within the three years that I thought maybe I should [leave] at that time
As a leader, he has come leaps and bounds. There is a lot of responsibility on Temba’s shoulders being given such a big honour to captain the white-ball teams
I have a job to do. My job is there to go out, get runs, and get my team in a position to win
Maybe on the field we haven't achieved as much as I would have thought but also you're playing against a lot of good teams with equal strengths