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Ready to captain in all three formats of the game: Faf du Plessis

04:43PM Mon 28 Aug, 2017

Faf du Plessis, South Africa's Test captain, has indicated that he's ready to lead the team in the 50-overs format of the game. The captaincy job became vacant after incumbent skipper, AB de Villiers, stepped down from leadership duties, even as he indicated a full-fledged return to all the three formats of the game.
du Plessis, who is already leading the Test as well as the Twenty20 team, leads the contenders list to succeed de Villiers and is heavily tipped to takeover as South Africa's captain in all the three formats of the game, officially. The middle-order batsman is unfazed at the daunting prospect of leading the team in all formats of the game and said he was prepared for the same.
"Captaining a team brings the best out of me," Faf told Times of Indiaon Monday(August 28). Having closely followed and later played with Jacques Kallis during his formative years, du Plessis has shared the dressing room with champion cricketers and leaders like India's MS Dhoni, New Zealand's Stephen Fleming and ace Australia batsman, Michael Hussey. This, du Plessis, believes will stand him in good stead ahead of the upcoming challenges.
While du Plessis remained upbeat about the possibility of leading South Africa in all forms of the game, former Protea opener and captain, Graeme Smith, sounded cautious and believed that captaining South Africa in all forms would put immense pressure on du Plessis.
"Captaining in two formats is all right because you also need to rest and recuperate to remain injury free. If he continues in a similar fashion, it will give him more time and space to enjoy his captaincy. This would be my advice to Faf," Smith said.
South Africa also recently joined the Twenty20 jargon with a T20 league of their own, aptly named as Global T20 league. The tournament, which is expected to be held in November-December, 2017, has already evinced plenty of interest worldwide as noted during the first ever team drafts. du Plessis, who will lead the Paarl-based Stellenbosch Monarchs, in the inaugural version of the tournament, was positive about the tournament shaping up South Africa's cricket future.
"The challenges in front of our league is to make it successful. Therefore it is important that cricket does not bleed and our cricketers don't lose their focus by playing only one format," he said while adding that T20 Global League would be the biggest event in South Africa.