Dean Elgar
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Oct 11, 2026
Chadd SayersGUEST
Mm-hmm
Sam EdmundHOST
... and your dad Dean was the coach, wasn't he?
Chadd SayersGUEST
Yeah, he, um, he coached us for a number of years at Woodville.
Chadd SayersGUEST
Really brought the club from, um, ground zero up and winning premierships again.
Simon KatichHOST
It's not as experienced as it once was with all the legends of South African c- cricket in it, which we saw back here in 2018.
Simon KatichHOST
AB de Villiers was still playing, and Faf du Plessis, and Dean Elgar.
Simon KatichHOST
But now there's this young crew coming through, and it's the leadership of Temba Pav- Pavuma that stands out.
Simon KatichHOST
And Australia, well, they wanna go down as a great team.
Daniel ChernyGUEST
No.
Courtney WalshHOST
Uh, and what it does do, I, I spoke to Dean Elgar, Elgar, the former South Africa captain, uh, last, uh, last month.
Courtney WalshHOST
He just retired.
Courtney WalshHOST
And he was saying the timing of the series-
Debbie KnightGUEST
And just
DarrenHOST
finally, a word from you about Dean Elgar, who's hung his bat up for the final time, had quite an impact in his time at Essex.
Debbie KnightGUEST
So I watched him play for South Africa.
Debbie KnightGUEST
I watched him play for Surrey.
Luke GoldHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tim StantonHOST
Dean Elgar, Colin Munro, the Big Nish.
Tim StantonHOST
Uh, he moves over-
Luke GoldHOST
[laughs] The Piece of Quiche
57 MINS LATER
Michael VilkinsGUEST
We're gonna get all our sixes at the end.
Luke GoldHOST
You're gonna have to sock pretty much dingers from here on out.
Luke GoldHOST
As Dean Elgar-
Tim StantonHOST
Dean Elgar
AaronHOST
You look at Kent, the noise, the atmosphere down at the Saint Lawrence ground when that news filtered through, and they have returned to Division One.
AaronHOST
You look at Dean Elgar in his final professional innings, scoring a century, rounding out a phenomenal career in precisely the fashion that we hoped for.
AaronHOST
If you had to select a Moment of the Week in this final round of the 2026 County Championship, which one would you select and why? Joe, I'll start with you first.
Joe NuttallHOST
So I'm gonna go for...
speaker_0HOST
Sussex won pretty handedly against Hampshire down at Southampton.
speaker_0HOST
And then, yeah, Glamorgan and Essex, some quite big runs scored there, but Essex following on and Dean Elgar scoring 100 in his last innings, which was amazing.
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And then Somerset, an absolute run fest down at Taunton.
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Somerset scoring 731, including a Lamonby double century, but all more excitingly in a way, Tom Abel triple century.
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speaker_0HOST
Let's call a spade a spade.
speaker_0HOST
Anyway, and then on to staying on the same fixture in a way.
speaker_0HOST
It was quite cool that Dean Elgar, Colin Ingram, Chris Cook and Billy Root all retired in the same game.
speaker_0HOST
It's like four.
Neil ManthorpHOST
We'll be back at a similar time next week with a whole smorgasbord of things to look forward to and to look back on.
Neil ManthorpHOST
And I think that we'll be featuring an interview that Harmony and I did a couple of days ago with Dean Elgar, who signed out his professional first class career with a century in his final innings.
Neil ManthorpHOST
What a fairy tale story.
Neil ManthorpHOST
We'll have him next week.
DarrenHOST
Let's talk about a couple of, uh, positive things to end on.
DarrenHOST
Firstly, um, a few words from your good self about Dean Elgar, who's, uh, brought the curtain-
Dan HaggerCORRESPONDENT
Yeah
DarrenHOST
... down on his, uh, Chelsea career.
Alison MitchellHOST
And you can watch us on YouTube by going to the BBC World Service YouTube channel.
Alison MitchellHOST
On last week's show, former South Africa captain Dean Elgar told us why he's decided the time is right to retire from all forms of cricket at the end of the county championship season.
Dean ElgarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm 40 next year, so I've been around the cricketing circles for quite a long time now.
Dean ElgarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is the end of a pretty long career, I'd say.
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