{"id":7901,"date":"2023-12-06T17:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=379792"},"modified":"2023-12-06T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:09:06","slug":"former-south-african-skipper-hints-a-comeback-for-t20i-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-south-african-skipper-hints-a-comeback-for-t20i-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Former South African skipper hints a comeback for T20I World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African captain Faf du Plessis has disclosed his contemplation of a return to international cricket, eyeing a comeback in time for the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup next year.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis\u2019 last international appearance dates back to the second Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi in 2021, and his most recent white-ball outing for South Africa was in a T20I contest against England in Cape Town at the close of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hiatus, the 39-year-old has been showcasing strong performances at the domestic level. Notably, he emerged as the second-highest run-scorer in this year\u2019s Indian Premier League, accumulating an impressive 730 runs for Royal Challengers Bangalore from 14 innings. With a promising domestic form, du Plessis is considering a return to the international arena, and the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup provides a potential stage for his comeback bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African captain Faf du Plessis has disclosed his contemplation of a return to international cricket, eyeing a comeback\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":30790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[841,3757],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-faf-du-plessis","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2024"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}