South African team’s star player Faf du Plessis, has stunned everyone with his bat again in the T20 League. The 38-year-old, right-handed batter is currently playing in the South Africa T20 League, where he is captaining the Joburg Super Kings team. On 24th January, du Plessis’s team defeated Durban Super Giants by 8 wickets.
In this match, Faf du Plessis created history in the South Africa T20 League by scoring a century in a blistering fashion. This is the first century of this tournament. Du Plessis scored an unbeaten 113 off 58 balls in the match. During this inning, he scored 8 fours and 8 sixes. The captain of the Super Kings team scored runs in the match at a strike rate of 194.82.
In this match, du Plessis thrashed his brother-in-law and fast bowler, Hardus Viljoen. Whenever Viljoen came to bowl in front of du Plessis in the match, he was thrashed fiercely by the veteran batter. Du Plessis scored runs at a strike rate of around 250 against Viljoen. Viljoen bowled 14 balls to Du Plessis in the match, on which Super Kings captain Du Plessis scored 36 runs.
While batting first after losing the toss in the match, Durban Super Giants had scored 178 runs for 6 wickets. Henry Klaasen scored 65 runs for the team. But in response, the Joburg Super Kings team scored 182 runs in 19.1 overs after losing 2 wickets and winning the match. The player of the match, du Plessis, scored the highest number of 113 runs.
