As the series against England around the corner, South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has asked all the stakeholders to put help rebuild South African cricket. While speaking after his team, Paarl Rocks, secured a place in the home finale at the MSL, he asked for plans to be put in place quickly to ensure the team is ready for their next series.
“Obviously a lot has happened but now it’s a new start,” Faf du Plessis said. “There’s not much time before the English series so now it’s about putting our focus back on to the team, making sure that the Test team gets all the things that are required for us to be successful.”
“It’s been a little bit on pause the last two or three weeks which is already too late, so we need to make sure in the next week things will start unfolding to make sure the Test team gets the most attention. The last two weeks there hasn’t been much attention on that so that is what we will try and drive over the next week,” he added.
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However, South Africa are in need of a selection panel and a support staff assist to interim team director Enoch Nkwe.
“Now it’s about moving forward. I am a firm believer that it’s time for us to look ahead from all this crap that’s been happening behind the scenes. It’s about making sure that the players are focused on the cricket side of things,” he said.
“The players have got absolutely nothing to do with what’s happening behind the scenes. It’s important to separate that from a player point of view and if it needs me to be dealing with some of these things, then that’s OK. It’s about getting focus on what’s really important now which is a Test series against England. As I said before, it’s already a little bit 99 [last-minute] and things haven’t happened as they should have but now we can start getting things on the right track,” he shared.
“There’s too much negative stuff that’s happened over the last four or five weeks and our cricket is too strong to have so many issues all the time. We are too proud a cricketing nation to be talking about this stuff all the time. The attention needs to be on the cricket and making sure we will build ourselves as a team and ourselves as an organisation to be great again,” Faf du Plessis concluded.
