South Africa opener Dean Elgar said he learned a lot from the India series which included visiting “smaller places and staying in hotels” as well but he backed his side ahead of the final Test against India. After managing a 1-1 draw in the T20 series, South Africa has suffered a big loss in the first two Tests of the three-match series.

“It’s a challenging tour. You get stretched as a person, you get stretched as a cricketer, I think you get to know yourself quite a lot as a person when you come to the smaller places where the hotels are maybe not as good, and you get challenged on the field,” Dean Elgar said. “It’s always a good learning curve coming to India.”

However, Elgar thinks the World Test Championship will encourage people to watch the game as well as the competition will be there in each team.

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“Back in the day it was always a bit of a dead rubber game but now with the World Test Championships around, we still have points to play for,” Elgar said. “We can still get 40 points by following our process against India in the last Test. That’s something we can’t neglect going into this game. There is still a lot to play for.”

However, he hoped to do good in the final game and wants to end on a high note.

“We still motivate everyone within our squad. It has been a challenging few weeks but it’s still not too gloomy for us. We are upbeat, the morale in the camp is still very good. We still have one game and we can actually change quite a lot. We are still pretty hopeful and pretty positive going into the last Test,” he shared. “Hope we score a lot of runs. In the second Test, we forgot a few basic things we did in the first Test.”