Faf: Through Fire

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Du Plessis, an Afrikaans Seuns Hoërskool (Affies) alumni, joined the recently-merged franchise in 2004 where Cullinan was captain. Watching the India v/s South Africa New Year Test at the Newlands is among his favorite cricket memories. It showed how team leadership, management, and environment are vital for the players, and provides a detailed perspective about it through his experiences. Although Du Plessis was not part of the team present at the camp, the ideas revolving around team culture would build the foundation for his career as a player and captain.

Although Du Plessis showed incredible discipline in his cricket career, it wouldn’t be until he turned 26 that that discipline was also a part of his personal life.Join thousands of devoted South Africans who look to News24 to bring them news they can trust every day. Du Plessis implemented a system of feedback within the team, where he asked Eastwood to speak with players individually and get their views on how the leadership of the team could improve.

We suspected that someone had been nurturing the ball too much to get it to reverse so wildly, and we watched the second Test at St George’s through binoculars, so that we could follow the ball more closely while Australia was fielding. His healthy and fruitful partnerships with Russell Domingo and Ottis Gibson were attributed to them operating “as a unit. Upon concluding Faf: Through Fire, it would be hard not to reflect on the degree of vulnerability that Du Plessis displays. Another ex-Protea captain, Graeme Smith, had said that Du Plessis is probably happy playing in T20 leagues around the world.They thought he was this big, bad, ugly ogre, and when he comes in and goes ‘g’day boys, how you going’ and pats them on the back, the look of shock in their face was like ‘what, this guy is actually a nice guy’. in ODIs, [6] he is the first international captain to defeat Australia in Australia in all three formats of the game [8] and defeat Australia in both Home and Away test series back to back, in 2016 and 2018. In December 2013, he scored a test match saving hundred with a score of 134 off 309 balls against India while chasing 458 to win in the 4th innings.

Du Plessis, who hasn't officially announced his T20 retirement, but hung up his red-ball boots in February 2021 after SA's 2-0 series loss against Pakistan, told the story in his up-coming book, Faf: Through Fire,of how Cullinan treated him badly when he first spent time in the Titans' dressing room. He resigned from the Test captaincy on February 17, 2020, but opted to stay on as a player and thought of himself as "leading without a title".It may appear as if Boucher lacks the warmth and soft skills to develop a relationship with Du Plessis. I struggled to connect with him in the way a captain should do with a coach and then also struggled to do so as a player.