Southhampton: the African captain Faf Duplessis, despite all the adversity, took a bold stand, advising his players not to be discouraged and maintain morale on Tuesday. Nothing seems to be right in the ICC World Cup with the South African team as the team is to field in a crucial encounter against India on Wednesday and before that, their most experienced bowler Dale Steyn crashed out of the tournament due to injury.
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With this, apart from Steyn, the team's young pacer Lungi Ngidi will also not get into the fray against India due to injury. Earlier, the team was defeated by hosts England and against Bangladesh at the bottom notch in the rankings. The young players of the team were being emboldened but the Captain du Plessis had his bogey before the contest against India at the second spot in the world rankings.
According to the information, du Plessis said, "For me, it is a natural thing in the team when you think the morale of the team is going down and obviously the young players playing in the World Cup for the first time may be demoralized but we don't have to dominate it ourselves the next two days. Will "It's important for us to be firm," he said. If our attention is breached, the team can wobble and unfortunately we are not in a situation where it can withstand.
