IND vs SA: India forgot about the game - Dean Elgar on DRS controversy

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South African skipper Dean Elgar said the DRS controversy offered them a "window" to have a go at the target with the Virat Kohli-led Indian team getting distracted by their on-field chatter during the series-deciding third Test.

Elgar's LBW decision by umpire Marais Erasmus was overturned after HawkEye showed the ball trajectory going over the stumps. Chasing 212, South Africa were 60 for one when Elgar got the reprieve, but with the Indian camp busy with the DRS controversy, the hosts went on to score 40 runs in the next eight overs.

"That obviously gave us a little bit of a window period, especially yesterday [Thursday] for us to score a little bit freer and obviously, chip away at the deficit that we needed or the target that we needed," Elgar said. "It worked out well in our hands, it played nicely into our hands. For a period of time, they actually forgot about the game and they were challenging a bit more of the emotional side of what Test cricket has to offer."

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