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Faf du Plessis Retires from Test cricket

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Former South African skipper Francois du Plessis, popularly known as ‘Faf’ du Plessis announced his retirement from Test cricket. His decision to quit from the longest format of the game came on Wednesday, February 17. Du Plessis said he now wants to focus on the shortest format for the next two years.


The right-handed middle order batsman and part-time leg spin bowler marked his ODI debut against India in January 2011 at Cape Town. And after a long wait, he was awarded a place in the Test side on the tour to Australia at Adelaide in 2012. Du Plessis played in 69 Tests for South Africa and scored 4,163 runs. In the process, he scored 10 centuries, 21 fifties and registered his highest score of 199 in 2020. The 36-year old was handed the Test captaincy in December 2016 and assumed full-time captaincy in all formats of the game in the following year. He has led the Pretorian side in 32 Test matches, with 17 victories and boasts a success rate of more than 50 percent.

He is considered as an orthodox, all-conditions technique and a dogged approach player at the crease,which makes him an asset in the shortest form of the game. He made his T20I debut against England at Chester-le-Street, in 2012.

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