Cricket South Africa, I Just Want To Show You How Good I Am Still If You Have Forgotten It: Faf du Plessis

Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has said that he has got two voices in his batting one is a good voice and the other is a bad voice.

The veteran Proteas batsman who was part of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 delivered exceptional performance for the team in the season. In 16 games he scored 633 runs at an average of 45.21 and he was the second-highest run-getter of the tournament just behind his teammate Ruturaj Gaikwad who scored 635 runs to win the orange cap.

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Faf du Plessis who played a match-winning knock of 86 in the final of the Indian Premier League 2021 against Kolkata Knight Riders said that he had aimed to finish in the top 3 in the list of leading run-getters.

“I have a good batting voice and a bad batting voice. To give you a practical example of this voice, in this last IPL, I had a fantastic IPL, to the point where the goals I set for myself, which were to be in the top three [run-scorers] right from the beginning, I got along to this goal pretty well,” Faf Du Plessis told Paddy Upton on the ‘Lessons from the World’s Best’ podcast.

Du Plessis also revealed that he was fighting with mental demons during his match-winning knock against KKR in the IPL final. He said:

“But, through the process of this, there’s this positive and negative voice. To reference one such incident, I’m in the race, but in the semi-final, I get one and everyone shoots past me, and then I’m sitting at number six.”

“So, we win the game and go into the final. It’s a big game, and this negative voice goes, ‘no, you’re not making it, they’re too far away. Actually, you know what, you’re a little bit out of form, I don’t know how you will get runs in the final. Oh, it’s a big game, you got one in the last game’. This voice tells me a failure.”

Cricket South Africa, I Just Want To Show You How Good I Am Still If You Have Forgotten It – Faf du Plessis

Faf du Plessis retired from Test cricket in 2021 to focus on white-ball cricket and despite his sensational run in IPL, he was not included in the South Africa team for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021. Faf du Plessis said that that he listened to the positive voices which helped form well in the IPL final and he wanted to prove a point. He elaborated:

“I would have [listened to the negative voice] in the past, but then this positive voice goes, ‘Top three is your goal. You play your best when it’s high-pressure. You’re Mr. Dependable. When pressure is at the highest, that’s you. Ok, what do you need? 40 runs to get into the top three, well, no, I’ll make 83 runs to be number one. I want that Orange Cap.’ Also, I want to go, ‘Cricket South Africa, I just want to show you how good I am still if you have forgotten it.”

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