Ugly blocks, pretty runs: Elgar's Test hundred in Vizag wasn't minus his rivalry with Ravichandran Ashwin ©AFP
It was a six that took him to the "most important" century of his career. He picked a loopy delivery on middle and off and slog swept it over cow corner - a shot he'd attempted for the first time against Ravichandran Ashwin on Friday (October 4). Given the helmet yank and the roar that emanated, you knew it meant something. Anybody that tells that it is the numbers, and not moments, that make up Test cricket doesn't know what it means to middle a slog sweep to go from 94 to 100. Especially not to Dean Elgar.
Let's rewind to 2015,
