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NEIL MANTHORP: Du Plessis looks and learns while other captains do the talking
Proteas skipper continues his effort to fly under the media radar at the Cricket World Cup
It can be a little awkward when sports stars are presented to the media at inappropriate times or with too little context, or by media managers with insufficient knowledge of important background information: such as whether there is a common language for the interview. It has happened more than once that a tense media corps, desperately seeking their quotes with deadlines looming, has been presented with a second or even third interviewee when they need to be hammering at their keyboards in the time-honoured, two-fingered way perfected by sports writers. Often they have no choice but to grab their recording devices and leave. But there was no such feet-staring silence at the World Cup captains media conference a couple of days ago, despite the high-risk strategy of staging a question-and-answer session with 10 of the highest-profile cricketers in the world. Yes, including Gulbadin Naib, Afghanistan’s charismatic skipper. While Eoin Morgan and Virat Kohli answered a series of predic...
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