South African skipper Faf du Plessis believes that their team will face tougher challenges in coming future, but said a record win over Bangladesh will boost their confidence ahead of series against India and Australia later in the season.

As per the recent reports of AFP, Du Plessis said, “We had really good targets that we wanted to achieve in this series and we achieved those hands down. It gives us a lot of confidence but we appreciate that India and Australia are going to be a lot tougher. Bangladesh possibly didn’t have the firepower that we thought they would have in these conditions.”

Du Plessis said big hundreds and crucial partnerships from the batsmen and ruthless bowling has helped their team to win. He said, “We appreciate that we’ve still got a lot of work to do to be the finished article but if we do get better we’ll be challenging for that (ICC) number one ranking again.”

It was the biggest win for South Africa in the history of Test cricket, surpassing the innings and 229 run victory over Sri Lanka in Cape Town in 2000/01.

African pacer Kagiso Rabada registered match figures of 10 for 63, became the youngest of 16 South Africans to take 100 Test wickets. He was playing in his 22nd Test. It was his third 10-wicket haul in Tests. In 2017, he has taken 54 wickets, the most by any bowler this year.