Living the life of Rilee: Rossouw goes from 10 ducks to top run-scorer
Once he was done telling the media how his team had gone about completing a 5-0 thrashing of Australia in their one-day series at Newlands on Wednesday‚ captain Faf du Plessis took a seat on the side of the room.He plopped an ankle over a knee‚ folded his arms across his chest‚ allowed his face to melt into a wide smile‚ cast a sideways glance to the top table‚ and handed over to Rilee Rossouw — who was not supposed to play in the rubber and ended up as SA’s leading run-scorer.Rossouw replaced the injured AB de Villiers in the squad.Then Hashim Amla was ruled out of the first match with flu.Enter Rossouw to score 63.On the insistence of the selectors, Rossouw kept Amla out of the team for the second game — and scored 75.But Rossouw saved his best for last‚ drilling 122 on Wednesday to help SA win by 31 runs and achieve the first 5-0 whitewash of the Australians by any opponents. Was he relieved that‚ having made five ducks in his first 10 ODIs‚ he had finally proved he could play at...
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