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Faf du Plessis

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Francois "Faf" du Plessis (born 13 July 1984) is a South African international cricketer and the current captain of the South African national team across all formats. [1]

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AB de Villiers

Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (born 17 February 1984), commonly known as AB de Villiers and Mister 360 Degree, also simply known as ABD, is a former South African cricketer who played for the South African national team He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool

The Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans Boys' High School) also known as Affies, is a public high school for boys situated in the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Ampie du Preez

Ampie Du Preez (born c. 1982) is a South African singer-songwriter.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2016–17

Australian national cricket team toured South Africa in September and October 2016 playing a series of five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the hosts and a solitary ODI against Ireland.

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Ball tampering

In the sport of cricket, ball tampering is an action in which a fielder illegally alters the condition of the ball.

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Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket.

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Ben Hilfenhaus

Benjamin William Hilfenhaus (born 15 March 1983, in Ulverstone, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Captain (cricket)

The captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of the other players.

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Chennai Super Kings

The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Cousin

Commonly, "cousin" refers to a "first cousin" or equivalently "full cousin", people whose most recent common ancestor is a grandparent.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Day/night cricket

Day/night cricket, also known as Floodlit cricket is a cricket match that is played either totally, or more usually partially, under floodlights in the evening.

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Dean Elgar

Dean Elgar (born 11 June 1987) is a South African cricketer, who plays Tests and ODIs, and a former Test captain.

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Duck (cricket)

In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.

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Durham MCC University

Durham MCC University (previously known as Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Gary Kirsten

Gary Kirsten (born 23 November 1967) is a former South African cricketer, and the World Cup winning coach of the Indian cricket team.

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Hashim Amla

Hashim Mohamed Amla OIS (born 31 March 1983) is a South African International cricketer who plays for South Africa in all three formats of the game, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

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Heino Kuhn

Heino Gunther Kuhn (born 1 April 1984) is a South African cricketer who has played for the national team.

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (IPL), officially Vivo Indian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by teams representing Indian cities and some states.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis (born 16 October 1975) is a former South African cricketer, and, a former Test and ODI captain.

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Jacques Rudolph

Jacobus Andries "Jacques" Rudolph (born 4 May 1981) is a former South African cricketer who played for Glamorgan and in South Africa with Titans.

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JP Duminy

Jean-Paul Duminy, often shortened to JP Duminy, (born 14 April 1984) is an international South African cricketer.

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Kolpak ruling

The Kolpak ruling is a European Court of Justice ruling handed down on 8 May 2003 in favour of Maroš Kolpak, a Slovak handball player.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.

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Lancashire League (cricket)

The Lancashire League is a competitive league of local cricket clubs drawn from the small to middle-sized mill towns, mainly but not exclusively, of East Lancashire.

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Leg break

A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket.

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Leg spin

Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket.

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List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket.

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Mansfield Hosiery Mills Cricket Club

Mansfield Hosiery Mills Cricket Club is an English cricket club based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

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Melbourne Renegades

The Melbourne Renegades is an Australian professional men's Twenty20 cricket team based in the Australian state, Victoria.

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Mike Watkinson

Mike Watkinson (born 1 August 1961 in Westhoughton, Lancashire) is a former English cricketer who played four test matches and one One Day International in the mid-1990s.

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Morné Morkel

Morné Morkel (born 6 October 1984) is a South African cricketer who played all formats of the game for South Africa and currently plays for Surrey in English domestic cricket.

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New Zealand national cricket team

The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket.

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Northerns (cricket team)

Northerns (formerly North Eastern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal) has played first-class cricket in South Africa since December 1937.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Pakistan national cricket team

The Pakistan national cricket team (پاکستان قومی کرکٹ ٹیم), popularly referred to as the Shaheens (شاہینز), Green Shirts and Men in Green, is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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Pretoria

Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.

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Richard Levi

Richard Ernst Levi (born 14 January 1988) is a South African cricketer.

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Rising Pune Supergiant

The Rising Pune Supergiant (often abbreviated as RPS) was a franchise cricket team based in Pune, Maharashtra, that played in the Indian Premier League in 2016 and 2017.

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Robin Peterson

Robin John Peterson (born 4 August 1979) is a former South African cricketer who bowls left arm spin and is a capable batsman.

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South Africa national cricket team

The South African national cricket team, nicknamed the Proteas (after South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "king protea"), is administered by Cricket South Africa.

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Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch Thomas Baldwin, 1852.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Tillakaratne Dilshan

Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan (තිලකරත්න ඩිල්ෂාන්; born Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan on 14 October 1976) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

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Titans (cricket team)

The Titans (known as the MultiplyTitans for sponsorship reasons) are the northernmost top-level cricket franchise in South Africa.

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Todmorden Cricket Club

Todmorden Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Centre Vale in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

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Transvaal (province)

The Province of the Transvaal (Provinsie van die Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until the end of apartheid in 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it.

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Twenty20 International

A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces twenty overs.

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University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria (Universiteit van Pretoria, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa.

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Vernon Philander

Vernon Darryl Philander (born 24 June 1985) is a South African right-handed bowling all-rounder, he has previously represented his country at under 19 level.

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WACA Ground

The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia.

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2010 Indian Premier League

The 2010 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 3 or the 2010 IPL, was the third season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007.

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2011 Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup 2011) was the tenth Cricket World Cup.

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2017 Independence Cup

The 2017 Independence Cup was a cricket tournament that took place in Lahore, Pakistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faf_du_Plessis

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