"There will be moments, no doubt, where there will be a few feisty encounters but hopefully it doesn't reach the stage that we experienced in 2018," Elgar said. "What's happened in the past happened. There are no grudges. We know they want to win and we want to win. There will always be a moment where egos and the heat of the moment gets to the guys but think it will be better controlled this time.

"If they've got added issues with regards to [what happened] then that's their thing, but with regards my team we haven't spoken about it once. It's history for us."

"We've all moved on. I don't think we're probably as abrasive as we've been in the past. It's working for us."

"We've all moved on," Cummins said. "I don't think we're probably as abrasive as we've been in the past. It's working for us. How we are off the field is pretty similar to what we play on the field I think - calm, very chill, just enjoying it out there, really competitive. And we've done that really well over the last 12 months."

Speaking on Thursday, Khawaja provided a perspective of someone who was in the team at Newlands, then spent time out of the side, before his recall earlier this year.

"Honestly [it] hasn't been [discussed] and I'm being genuine," he said. "It's because time heals all wounds. We've just come so far from there that we've got a bigger picture. I think that actually gave guys a lot of perspective. Australian cricket, both as a whole and as individual as players we were probably at rock bottom right there too.

"It gives you a lot of time to reflect and look back on things. I genuinely look and I see where the guys were four years ago to where they are now. There's been a lot of growing up and there's been a lot of maturity. I probably got to see it better than most because I was in the team, then I went away and then I came back in so it's been a nice change."

"We're really strong on who we are as a team, how we want to go about it," he said. "The last 12 months have been a great example on that. We're pretty firm on how we want to act and conduct ourselves. Whatever gets thrown at us, won't change that."