new Delhi: Former South African captain and Faf du Plessis of CSK is seen in a different color during IPL season 13. Faf du Plessis is batting heavily with his bat in the early stages of this IPL. Because of which he is also the most successful batsman of Chennai Super Kings so far this season. In the 7th match of IPL 2020, Faf du Plessis played a brilliant 43 runs against Delhi, with this innings, du Plessis has also completed his 2000 runs in IPL.
Faf du Plessis fourth South African batsman to do so
Actually before the 7th match of IPL 13 (IPL 13) against Delhi Capitals (DC), Chennai’s Faf du Plessis needed 17 runs to cross 2000 runs in IPL career. In such a situation, during the innings of CSK, Faf du Plessis achieved this position under the powerplay. With this, Faf du Plessis became the fourth South African batsman in the history of the Indian Premier League to have scored 2000 runs in this world’s biggest T20 league.
Earlier, AB de Villiers 4474, Jack Kallis 2427 and JP Dumney 2029 runs have done this feat. Faf du Plessis scored this run during just 74 matches and 67th innings.
Faf du Plessis now has 2000 * runs in the IPL.# Dream11IPL #CSKvDC pic.twitter.com/SVvX6oYOhO
– IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) September 25, 2020
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Faf du Plessis in great form in IPL 2020
From the first match of this year’s IPL, Faf du Plessis has been spewing fire continuously with his bat. Faf du Plessis made his team win by playing an unbeaten 58-run knock against Mumbai Indians (MI) in the first match of the tournament. After that, in the second match against CSK for Rajasthan Royals (RR), Faf du Plessis played a brisk innings of 72 runs. So at the same time, Faf has scored 43 runs against Delhi Capitals.
It is to be noted that Faf has scored 173 runs in 3 matches of IPL with a batting average of 86.50 and strike rate of 149.14 and the orange cap is also his name.
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