I froze.”Take your bag and sit in the bath,” he continued to scold. “You don’t deserve to sit here.”

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South Africa vs Australia, 2nd ODI Stats: Faf du Plessis becomes first batsman to score centuries in all formats at a single venue". Sportskeeda.com . Retrieved 16 November 2021. In trademark Du Plessis humour, he describes a gathering organized by De Villiers on the eve of a Test match against England in January 2005 in which he scored 92 and 109. Former Australia vice-captain David Warner apologised in tears on March 31 for his role in a ball-tampering scandal. / AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS Source: AFP du Plessis made his ODI debut on 18 January 2011 against India and made unbeaten 60 runs. He was chosen ahead of Albie Morkel for the 2011 World Cup on the Indian Sub-continent and later made his Test debut for South Africa against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in 2012 as the number 6 batsman, replacing the injured JP Duminy.Ali, Rizwan (26 October 2013). "South Africa's Faf du Plessis fined 50 per cent of match fee for ball tampering". The Independent. London . Retrieved 26 October 2013. Nos joined us and started giving a generic speech: “Welcome, everyone. Everything is new and we will all need time to get used to it, but let’s make the most of this opportunity. Team selections will be difficult, but …”

When we noticed that the ball was going to David Warner quite often – our changing room must have looked like a birdwatching hide as we peered intently through our binoculars.

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Israel strikes Gaza, Lebanon overnight, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducts top level meeting He claimed that South Africa suspected Australia of ball tampering from the first Test of the series, something which News Corp claims is “vehemently disputed” by Australian sources. His second Hundred came only 6 days later in his next ODI match on 2 September 2014. He scored 126 from 109 balls against the same opposition although South Africa lost by 62 runs. After making his maiden ODI hundred on 27 August 2014, and a consecutive ODI hundred on 2 September 2014, du Plessis followed with a third consecutive ODI hundred, scoring 121 off 140 balls, this time against Zimbabwe on 4 September 2014. (South Africa were playing an ODI tri-series with Australia and Zimbabwe.)I was super embarrassed about it because it’s in front of everyone else and guys are like, ‘shew, what’s going on here’, but the main thing there was, I walked away from there and I said to myself, ‘I will never in my entire life speak to a junior player like that’. Faf du Plessis unveiled as RCB's new captain for IPL 2022". ESPNCricinfo . Retrieved 12 March 2022. Six, seven, maybe eight years after [zippergate], with the context of everything, [my decisions] were based on values and principles and the principle there was, ‘it wouldn’t feel right toward the other guys that have been working really hard to earn a position in the World Cup squad’. He was charged with ball tampering during a Test match against Pakistan, in an incident he now dubs “zippergate”. That incident – like many others on his journey – although negative, made Du Plessis a better person at the end of it, he said. It was an amazing era – Jacques Rudolph, Kruger van Wyk who were our seniors and then myself and AB and then Heino [Kuhn] and Neil Wagner were a year younger than us.