AB de Villiers or Faf du Plessis? The question of who should captain SA is being debated by cricket-minded South Africans. De Villiers‚ the man appointed to take charge of the Test and one-day sides‚ has been out with an elbow injury since July. On Tuesday he batted in the nets for the first time since undergoing surgery and he is on course to play in a Twenty20 (T20) for the Titans on Sunday. Plan A is that he will be fit for the first Test against Sri Lanka at St George’s Park on December 26. But in De Villiers’s absence, Du Plessis — contractually SA’s T20 captain — has led them to victory in Test series against New Zealand and Australia‚ and in a one-day rubber against the Aussies.
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