Published 08:40 IST, June 28th 2020

Faf Du Plessis opens up on CSK dressing room's confidence-filled calm atmosphere

Du Plessis referred to the CSK dressing room as a room full of thinking cricketers as he offered an insight into the atmosphere in his IPL side's huddle

Reported by: Koushik Narayanan
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South Africa's Faf Du Plessis referred to Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) dressing room as a room full of thinking cricketers as he offered an insight into atmosphere in his IPL side's huddle, led by Captain Cool MS Dhoni. An integral part of arguably one of most successful sides in IPL, Du Plessis spoke about calm and composed environment in three-time champs' dressing room, revealing his experience of being around a lot of veteran cricketers under one roof. Faf Du Plessis has been an asset for CSK, both with bat and with his hands on field, in dition to providing his expertise as a skipper to legendary MS Dhoni. 

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'It is someone different'

"With Chennai, my experience re has been that of a calm dressing room. re are a lot of thinking cricketers in dressing room," du Plessis said during an Instagram session with former Zimbabwe pacer Pommie Mbangwa.

"re is a confidence in CSK dressing room that someone will pull it through for us, and on each occasion, it is someone different. 

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" guys share lo in winning games, it is a confidence thing by doing it again and again," du Plessis ded.

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Du Plessis credits MS Dhoni for improving his leership

Faf du Plessis, in a Facebook video chat with Banglesh opener Tamim Iqbal, praised his Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper, MS Dhoni, by saying that Indian wicketkeeper has an “extremely calm” presence on field. South African batsman also claimed that MS Dhoni is best finisher he has ever played with and described his batting as “remarkable” to watch from or end. Faf du Plessis furr stated that MS Dhoni is a very “instinctive” captain who res or players well on field. He credited wicketkeeper-batsman and his long-time CSK coach Stephen Fleming for improving his own leership skills. Faf du Plessis said that he is learning a lot from two during his IPL stint with CSK as both of m have been “great captains” for ir respective sides.

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08:40 IST, June 28th 2020