Faf du Plessis had an inquiry of his own after responding to reporters’ queries in Cape Town on Sunday: "No AB questions?" SA’s visit to Sri Lanka in July will be their first engagement since AB de Villiers’s retirement from international cricket on May 24. The tour will start in Galle on July 12 with the first of two Tests‚ which perhaps explains why De Villiers was not prominent in Sunday’s conversation. As Du Plessis himself said‚ "AB has only played the last one or two series for the Test team." "It will be a nice opportunity [in Sri Lanka] for someone like Temba [Bavuma] to put his peg in the ground and make the [No4] position his own‚" Du Plessis said. Whoever succeeds De Villiers can expect a searching test of his technique and temperament on the Asian island. "I’m expecting tough conditions‚" Du Plessis said. "Sri Lanka will look at our side and think that we have a better side than them on paper. I think they’ll try and make [the conditions] as dry as possible and spin as m...
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