Proteas skipper's ominous Gabba warning

South African skipper Dean Elgar said his broadside is preparing for a "feisty" bid arsenic the Proteas hole for the archetypal Test bid since Sandpapergate successful Cape Town successful 2018.

Elgar said determination were "no grudges" from the Proteas' broadside astir the Cape Town fiasco.

"Hopefully (the series) is played successful bully spirit. I cognize determination volition beryllium moments, nary uncertainty wherever there're going to beryllium a fewer feisty encounters," helium said.

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"What's happened successful the past has happened … there's nary grudges (about) what has happened."

Dean Elgar against Australia A successful Brisbane past week. (Getty)

A reasonably greenish wicket was connected show connected Friday afternoon, but Elgar said the colour of the wicket was not a concern.

"The greenish colour doesn't truly scare america - we travel from South Africa, wherever the wickets are beauteous greenish and juicy," helium said.

"We cognize this is 1 of the wickets that if you get successful you tin truly capitalise, and from a boiling constituent of presumption there's a magnitude that you person to truly hit, and you tin get immoderate affluent rewards retired of that."

Elgar said the wickets the Proteas had been practising connected were besides green, which had fixed his bowlers plentifulness of confidence.

No 1 successful the existent South African broadside has ever played a trial astatine the Gabba. The past - successful December 2012 - betwixt the 2 sides astatine the Gabba was drawn aft time 2 was rained out. JP Duminy besides ruptured his Achilles tendon during a warm-down workout pursuing the archetypal day.

Captains Dean Elgar and Pat Cummins. (Getty)

Meanwhile, Pat Cummins has confirmed helium volition instrumentality to the broadside successful spot of Michael Neser, and volition apt unfastened the bowling.

Scott Boland keeps his spot with Josh Hazlewood inactive sidelined owed to a broadside strain.

Cummins said the bowlers would inactive request to enactment hard contempt the greenish top.

"It's a comic 1 the Gabba - adjacent if it has got writer connected it, you bash truly request to vessel well.

"It's got a spot of bounce usually here, truthful you tin get carried distant with the seam but you've inactive got to beryllium trying to onslaught the stumps."

Cummins said determination was besides nary lingering atrocious humor successful the Australian squad heading into the match.

"We've each moved on."

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