South African veteran batsman Faf du Plessis's excellent performance continues in Major League 2024. On Thursday (July 25), in the eliminator match played against MI New York, he played a stormy innings of 72 runs in 47 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes for Texas Super Kings. He was adjudged the Player of the Match for this winning innings. With this win, the Super Kings team has reached the Challenger match.

40-year-old Du Plessis is in great form in the current tournament. He has scored 375 runs in 7 innings at an average of 53.57 and a strike rate of 168.61, which includes one century and three half-centuries. He has hit 36 ​​fours and 22 sixes.

No player is close to him in terms of scoring runs in the current tournament. Travis Head is in second place with 250 runs in 7 innings.

During his half-century innings for MI New York, Du Plessis completed 10500 runs in T20 format. He is the second player to reach this figure as a South African.

Du Plessis' record as a captain has also been excellent in the last one year. Earlier, under his captaincy, Johannesburg Super Kings reached the playoffs in SA20 2024 and Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2024.

It is worth noting that Du Plessis has been out of the South African team for a long time. He played his last international match in February 2021.