Michael Clarke deserved the Player of the Series award, says Du Plessis – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 thoroughly deserved the Player of the Series award.
The 28-year-old cricketer made his Test debut in the second match at the Adelaide Oval, following http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742’s ankle injury during training at Brisbane. The cricketer from Pretoria impressed one and all in his very first match with his solid temperament, playing a huge role in saving the Test for the Proteas, registering an unbeaten hundred.
Du Plessis scored 293 runs in his first two Tests against one of the best teams of world cricket. The right-handed batsman has surely announced his arrival at the global arena and the South African fans would be hoping that the stylish stroke-maker delivers the goods consistently in the coming years as well.
Some of the sporting pundits believe that he should have been given the Player of the Series award as the emerging batsman made a significant impact on the outcome of the battle. However, Du Plessis believes that the Australian captain deserved it, having scored two double centuries in the first two matches at Brisbane and Adelaide.
Du Plessis expressed, “I didn’t expect it at all, I wasn’t standing there thinking it could be me. A few of our guys had said to me that I would get it, if it was up to them, but they would say that! Personally I had no doubt that Michael would get it because two double hundreds in a series is just ridiculous – let alone four in a year. He thoroughly deserved it. He should have been the only contender.”
While talking about his great knock in the Adelaide Test, the middle-order batsman said that it required immense patience to bat for the whole of day five and is happy to have helped his team retain their number one ranking in the longer version of the sport.
“I don’t http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472hink so. It didn’t matter how many runs I scored, it was all about the time I spent at the crease,” said the new star of South African cricket.
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