Cricket player · Batter · South Africa
Faf du Plessis
Faf du Plessis appears in 47 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (19 Nov 2025 to 16 Oct 2026). 1,276 runs in 45 innings. 453 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.
Player profile
- Country
- South Africa
- Role
- Batter
- Batting
- Right-hand bat
- Bowling
- Leg-break
- Born
- 13 Jul 1984 Age 42
- Recorded matches
- 45399 internationals
Faf du Plessis is a batter from South Africa with 453 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 99 internationals (20 Tests, 61 ODIs, 18 T20Is).
Batting: 14,577 runs across all recorded formats, with 16 hundreds and 101 fifties; the most runs came in T20 (league and domestic) cricket (9,763) and the highest recorded score is 199.
Bowling: 1 wicket in recorded matches, 1 of them in ODI cricket.
Career figures by format
Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.
| Format | Mat | Inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100/50 | Wkts | Bowl avg | Econ | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 20 | 20 | 555 | 199 | 30.83 | 48.3 | 1/2 | – | – | – | – |
| ODI | 61 | 61 | 2,884 | 185 | 57.68 | 90.7 | 7/17 | 1 | 85.00 | 5.67 | 0 |
| T20I | 18 | 18 | 563 | 78 | 33.12 | 136.3 | 0/5 | 0 | – | 3.00 | 0 |
| T20 (league and domestic) | 312 | 307 | 9,763 | 120 | 35.25 | 143.2 | 8/73 | – | – | – | – |
| T10 | 32 | 32 | 631 | 76 | 23.37 | 181.3 | 0/3 | – | – | – | – |
| 100-ball | 8 | 8 | 134 | 56 | 16.75 | 135.4 | 0/1 | – | – | – | – |
| First-class | 1 | 1 | 36 | 36 | 36.00 | 64.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | – |
| List A | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 11.00 | 64.7 | 0/0 | – | – | – | – |
Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.
Faf du Plessis at a glance
FairPlay holds 47 complete scorecards featuring Faf du Plessis, most recently for Rotterdam Dockers (T20 and shorter).
In those matches Faf du Plessis batted 45 times for 1,276 runs at a strike rate of 151.36. The highest score was 113 not out off 52 balls against Seattle Orcas.
How the 39 dismissals happened: caught 26, bowled 9, LBW 2, stumped 2.
These matches were played at 13 different grounds.
Figures in FairPlay's scorecards
| 45 | 6 | 1,276 | 113* | 32.72 | 151.36 | 9/1 |
| Did not bowl in these matches. |
Match by match
Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.
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