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June 11, 2019 South Africa

Okay, your job’s pretty rubbish, but at least you’re not South Africa captain during a World Cup

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December 13, 2016 South Africa

Vehement letter-C denier AB de Villiers also renounces (c)

AB de Villiers has stood down as South Africa Test captain. Faf du Plessis has filled the void, much as he has been doing for quite a while now. This decision makes sense to us for two reasons. Firstly, de Villiers hardly ever plays cricket for South Africa at the

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November 24, 2016 Australia / South Africa

How to dismiss Faf du Plessis – make friends with him

Faf du Plessis is a competitor. That’s the kind of thing people say. It’s a shorthand way of saying that he only seems capable of playing to his full potential when there’s a stronger taste of conflict to proceedings. Performing in what is never called the crucible of county cricket,

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January 18, 2016 County cricket / South Africa

Faf du Plessis at Lancashire – a window into South Africa’s present?

It’s almost two years since Graeme Smith played his last Test. More than that since Jacques Kallis retired. Their departures left Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers as South Africa’s senior batsman and all this time later, Amla and de Villiers remain the senior batsmen. Things haven’t moved on. Two

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September 3, 2014 South Africa

Faf du Plessis has grown weary of getting hit in the nads

Aside from batting all day at one run an over to save Test matches, Faf du Plessis’s other thing is getting hit in the balls. You might say that he’s a specialist. In the video below, he talks you through the countermeasures he has been forced to take. Here’s a

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November 5, 2013 South Africa

Faf du Plessis – incompetent but not immoral

We can thank Faf du Plessis for inadvertently giving us the fantastically earnest Cricinfo headline: ‘No zips on cricket kit by 2015’. This brave new world is to be created because he was caught raking the ball across a zip on his kecks, presumably in a bid to rough it

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