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Faf du Plessis Claims T20 Leagues Become A Threat For International Cricket
By SMCS - Jun 7, 2021 5:56 pm
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Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has recently claimed that the rise of T20 leagues around the world has become a big threat to international cricket. He also added that the administrators of the game must check the fine balance between T20 leagues and international cricket as well.

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Faf du Plessis

“T20 leagues are a threat for international cricket. The power of the leagues are growing year by year and obviously, in the beginning, there might be just 2 leagues around the world and now it’s becoming 4,5, 6,7 leagues in a year. The leagues are just getting stronger,” he said in a virtual media interaction prior to the PSL. “I think it’s important that in future you try and see how it’s possible both can co-exist because it becomes a choice moving forward into the future then it can be a real threat for the international game.”

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Notably, Faf du Plessis also takes part in various T20 leagues across the globe. Currently, he is preparing to play for Peshawar Zalmi in the PSL, which will resume on June 9 after it was postponed midway due to COVID-19. He again shared that if the management doesn’t take corrective steps now, international cricket might face trouble in future, just like soccer.

“That is a huge challenge. Maybe in 10 years time cricket will almost be like soccer where you have your world events and in between, you have these leagues around the world where players can play,” the veteran South African batsman said.

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Faf du Plessis scored a fifty

Giving the example of West Indies players like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo among others, Du Plessis shared that many current players might become freelance cricketers in near future, which would be a big loss for their national teams as well. Notably, apart from PSL, he is a key player of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as well.

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“If I take someone like myself you go and play 2 or 3 or 4 leagues around the world but I can’t predict the future. There are more and more players…(who want to play in T20 Leagues). West Indies probably is the first team that started doing it. All of their guys moved away from the international team to the T20 domestic circuit. So the West Indian team lost a lot of their key players. It’s starting to happen with South Africa also,” Faf du Plessis concluded.