Captain Dean Elgar, who played a match-winning 96 not out in the second Test in Johannesburg that helped South Africa level the series, said the victory at the Wanderers against India is a move in the right direction for his team.

The Proteas, though, would not be tinkering with their game plan for the third and deciding Test at Newlands in Cape Town that begins on Tuesday.

“It’s a positive move, no doubt and a step in the right direction. We’re still going to have challenging encounters coming our way and that includes the next Test.

“We’re going to be pushed to different boundaries and how the guys respond to that is going to be important. We’ll have to be strict with our game plan, so we won’t be changing much going into Cape Town with regards to our game plans,” Elgar was quoted as saying by sport24.co.za.

Led by Elgar’s gritty knock in the second innings, the South Africans bounced back at the Wanderers to beat India by seven wickets after the visitors hammered them by 113 runs in the series opener in Centurion. Alongside Elgar, pacers Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen played their part. The likes of Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen too gave the skipper able support, particularly in the fourth innings.

However, there are areas that need improvement, Elgar acknowledged. “We’re going in the right direction and the win in the previous Test was a confidence booster.

“We’ve got a relatively inexperienced squad, but we still know that not everything is going to go our way. There were areas that we focused on and going into Cape Town, we’ll have to over-emphasise them again,” Elgar said.