Faf du Plessis picks two toughest bowlers he faced in his career

The veteran South African batter and former skipper Faf du Plessis has an illustrious international career to his name across all formats of the game. The veteran of 262 international games in a career of almost a decade has played a lot of crucial knocks for the South African team during his stint with the national side.

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But who would have thought that the Pretoria-based batting prodigy felt scared of facing two bowlers during his international cricketing career? Recently in a conversation with ESPNcricinfo, the 38-year-old revealed two names who were probably the toughest for him to face.

While answering a question in an interaction with Cricinfo, Faf opened up about ODIs that former Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal was a very tough contest for him to be in. Whereas on the other hand, he named veteran Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja as his fear in the longest format of the game.

Speaking of limited-overs cricket, Faf came across Saeed Ajmal 10 times including two appearances in T20I and eight in the 50-overs format. However, Ajmal couldn’t dismiss du Plessis in either of these 10 clashes but the latter could score only 18 runs in two T20I appearances alongside 52 runs off 92 balls in the ODIs.

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Talking about Faf’s contest with Jadeja, the former scored only 74 runs off 222 balls in 11 Test innings against the 34-year-old Indian all-rounder.

Faf du Plessis to lead Johannesburg in SA20 2023

Coming back to the current action of cricket for Faf du Plessis, he will be in action during the upcoming and much-anticipated SA20 2023 commencing on Tuesday, the 10^th of January with the inaugural match between MI Cape Town and Paarl Royals.

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Faf du Plessis will be leading the side of Johannesburg Super Kings in the tournament. Johannesburg will start its campaign in the tournament with its first match on Wednesday, 11^th of January against Durban Super Giants.