Neil Brand will captain the Proteas Test team in New Zealand. (Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images)
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Titans CEO Jacques Faul never misses an opportunity to describe Neil Brand as a modern-day Kepler Wessels of sorts.
Brand himself, who’s been saddled with the increasingly rare if no less daunting responsibility of making his Proteas Test debut as captain in New Zealand early next month, doesn’t quite know what to make of that.
“I suppose he probably refers to his doggedness and mental toughness. I have heard some observers compare him and Dean Elgar.”
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