Just after the sheer happiness of South Africa and Faf du Plessis' fans erupted on him crossing 150 for the first time in his international career at the SuperSport Park, his dismissal caught them unaware, shocking and saddening them to the core as the former Proteas captain got out on 199, one short of what would have been his first double hundred in international cricket.
Twitter reacted to this dismissal of his in a sad way as nobody expected du Plessis, who had been on the crease for more than 270 balls, to get out in such a fashion.
The delivery that got his wicket was not at all deserving of it. It was rather the lack of concentration, or just that one lapse in it, once in a day, that caused the 34-year-old his wicket. The man from Pretoria lofted a straight one from Wanindu Hasaranga as the bat twisted in his hands and a leading-edge was gulped easily by the opposition captain Dimuth Karunaratne at mid-on.
This was the 10th century for Faf in his 66th Test for the Proteas. With the help of this marathon knock, South Africa posted a mammoth 621 in the first innings, that too while scoring at a healthy run rate of 4.37
Trailing by 225 runs, Sri Lanka started their second innings on a poor note, losing captain Karunaratne at the score of 10. At the time of writing this news, Kusal Mendis had also lost his wicket and Kusal Perera along with Dinesh Chadimal were braving it out against a fiery spell from Lungi Ngidi. The islanders were trailing by 191 runs.
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