Dignitary Elgar has a directive for his bowlers: Please don't go. To the IPL from the beginning, that is. The competition plan collides with South Africa's home Test series against Bangladesh, and Elgar will be without the vast majority of his best option assault assuming that they pick establishment over country. Or then again, rather, in the event that they pick cash over renown. Also pick they should: the choice is theirs. The Bangladesh Tests are set to be played at St George's Park and Kingsmead from March 30 to April 12. The IPL is set to run from March 26 to May 29. Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen and Anrich Nortje all have IPL contracts - and are altogether prime possibility for the Test crew. Add travel time and three days of isolation to the situation, and the South Africans could miss the initial 18 days of the IPL. Add, as well, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram to that rundown. "Simply earlier today I got off a call with the separate work force at CSA to attempt to give us a rule regarding regardless of whether the players will be accessible," Elgar told a web-based question and answer session on Friday. "The result of that gathering is that the players need to give CSA a sign whether they're quick to go to the IPL or on the other hand assuming they're quick to play for the Test side. "It's an intense one surrendering that to the players, yet this is the way we'll see where their dependability lies. They mustn't fail to remember that Test and on one occasion cricket got them into the IPL, not the reverse way around. "That is everything I can give you now. I wish I had more, only for my very own mental soundness. So I can plan, knowing that a large portion of my bowlers are possibly not going to be there assuming they decide to go the IPL course. Ideally by the following week that will be more clear for us." The way that the Tests will be played on similar sluggish pitches where Sri Lanka turned into the principal Asian group to win a series in the configuration in South Africa in February 2019 just convoluted Elgar's central goal: "The scenes are more appropriate for the resistance; I imagine that carries them into the game. I can't take the field without my best side, to allow ourselves the best opportunity. I really want my best players." All things considered, Elgar had sympathy for those included: "You don't need players to pass up a major event like the IPL, in no way, shape or form. In any case, I'd in any case prefer to think playing for your nation is greater than that." That depends how you measure size: in dollars or loyalty. The IPL pays some of South Africa's players dramatically more than they make from the global game. For example, Jansen will have procured around USD22,500 from the five Tests he has played up until this point. Assuming he remains for the Bangladesh Tests, that is another USD9,000. In this way, an aggregate of USD31,500. His agreement with Sunrisers Hyderabad is worth USD550,000. That is in excess of multiple times what he has and will be paid by CSA this mid year. Elgar has substantiated himself a powerful skipper. His motivational speech with Rabada during the Wanderers Test against India in January took the initiate back to his blazing best, and saved him there for the series in New Zealand that finished on Tuesday. Be that as it may, how might Elgar stop his players making what might be, for some, the conspicuous decision? "I can simply make them mindful of their situation inside our set up," Elgar said. "They all assume a major part. It really depends on me to go up to every person and point out to them that they mustn't fail to remember where they've come from as players and where we've come from collectively. The following not many days may be occupied and fascinating for me. "I owe it to our gathering to allow them the best opportunity to settle on a choice. Assuming it implies I really want to make them mindful of their situations in the side, then, at that point, I need to do that. Since for me it's regarding the master plan. It's with regards to us playing however much Test cricket as could be expected. We're as of now playing so little Test cricket. We can't not have our best players around when the group is called upon to go out and perform." White-ball experts Quinton de Kock and David Miller are likewise set to play in the IPL - which could remove them from the blend for the three ODIs South Africa will play against Bangladesh from March 18 to 23. CSA's hands-off approach on the IPL varies from their position on the PSL: they would not deliver contracted players for the last option, which was played in January and February, since it conflicted with the public group's apparatuses. One more thought will be CSA's right now comfortable relationship with the BCCI, not least in light of the companionship between Graeme Smith and Sourav Ganguly. Elgar's concerns are more prompt. Friday's presser finished with him scouring his eyes, which were presumably depleted right after his long excursion back from New Zealand, where his group retaliated in epic design to square the series. For his next stunt, he wants to plot and plan a method for safeguarding his group. Beneficial thing, maybe, that he will not have the option to nod off.