The surrender was meek for ‘the mighty’ Faf
A SA Cricket Magazine headline this week read: ‘Faf du Plessis’ brilliant Test career: The stats’.
It was a very liberal and generous use of the word brilliant because Du Plessis’s 69-match Test career, collectively, was more decent than brilliant.
There were brilliant occasions, none more so than his epic second innings against Australia on his Test debut, but Du Plessis consistently never delivered in the five-day format.
There is so much to admire about Du Plessis as a cricketer. He is astute, a thinker, a
