WATCH: Faf du Plessis displaying his amazing fitness at age of 39, video goes viral

Faf du Plessis was recently retained by his IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for the upcoming Indian Premier League 2024, alongside the former Indian skipper Virat Kohli.

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Faf du Plessis (File Photo: Twitter)

Faf du Plessis (File Photo: Twitter)

Former South African skipper and legendary international batter of his time, Faf du Plessis is still active in the franchise cricket leagues across the cricketing world. He has amazed the fans with his brilliant fitness at the age of 39 and batting abilities for his respective sides in the different franchise cricket leagues. 

Recently, a similar video went viral on social media in which Du Plessis can be seen training hard and showing his excellent fitness. The video was posted by the Texas Super Kings, the franchise of the Major League Cricket, an American franchise T20 tournament.

Texas Super Kings captioned the video, “With every stride, our Skipper shines!”, the video was further shared by a lot of cricket fans over X (formerly Twitter)

Here’s the video of Faf du Plessis during his training: 

 

Recently, Faf du Plessis was in the headlines when he was retained by his franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for the upcoming Indian Premier League 2024. Notably, the 39-year-old Proteas star is active in the Indian Premier League as a skipper for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

He was one of the star performers for the RCB with the bat and ended up as the second leading run-scorer in the IPL 2023 owing to his brilliant batting performance throughout the entire tournament. He smashed 730 runs in 14 innings of the 14 matches, he played for the red outfits in the tournament, with a commendable average of 56.15, hitting 8 half-centuries, including a highest score of 84.

Here’s a look at the list of players retained by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for IPL 2023

Faf du Plessis (C), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Cameron Green (traded from MI), Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar (traded from SRH), Vyshak Vijaykumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, and Rajan Kumar.

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