Faf du Plessis, it's time to sit down, shut up and move on

27 November 2016 - 02:00
By TELFORD VICE

Emotion is to the truth what mints are in the mouths of cricketers - dangerous. And after days of much more emotion than truth, we need to get back to the facts. Here's the only one that matters: if Faf du Plessis did not have contraband in his mouth, from which he fetched spit to shine the ball during the Hobart test, we would not have had the week from tabloid hell.

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