CSA leaves out Du Plessis, Tahir from congratulatory submit on CSK; points one other one after criticism

Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Saturday drew sharp criticism, together with from tempo nice Dale Steyn, after it congratulated Lungi Ngidi for successful the IPL title with Chennai Super Kings, however overlooked star batter Faf du Plessis and leg-spinner Imran Tahir from its preliminary social media submit, which was deleted.
CSA finally issued a tweet congratulating all South Africans taking part in for CSK. Du Plessis contributed immensely to the CSK successful their fourth IPL title in Dubai on Friday night time.
“Congratulations to all the South Africans who competed in and claimed victory in the 2021 IPL Final with Chennai Super Kings. Notably Faf du Plessis who put in a Man of the match performance,” was posted by CSA after a social media storm and criticism from a few of its large gamers like Steyn.

Congratulations to all of the South Africans who competed in and claimed victory within the 2021 IPL Final with Chennai Super Kings. Notably Faf du Plessis who put in a Man of the match efficiency pic.twitter.com/rC9QaIZ90r
— Cricket South Africa (@OfficialCSA) October 16, 2021
Earlier, after the Super Kings’ title triumph, CSA put out a submit on Instagram, captioning: “Congratulations @lungingidi on claiming the 2021 IPL title with Chennai Super Kings.”
This didn’t go down nicely with Steyn and du Plessis himself, who was joined by many others in slamming the cricket physique.
Du Plessis, who emerged because the second-highest scorer of the season with 633 runs for CSK, responded to the message saying: “Really???”
Not in any respect impressed by the CSA, Steyn additionally hit out on the cricket physique on his social media deal with.
“Who’s running this account? Last I checked Faf isn’t even retired, Imran isn’t retired, both these guys have given years of service to CSA and they were not worth a mention? Disgusting,” the previous South Africa pacer wrote.
“CSA opening a can of worms for themselves with their Twitter and Instagram. Whoever’s running those accounts needs a talking too,” tweeted Steyn.
“CSA now blocked the comments section. Here’s some advice. Do the right thing. Delete the post and add all the men involved, save yourself the embarrassment and ridicule,” he added.
Joining Steyn, former South Africa participant David Wiese termed it “shocking” and stated du Plessis and Tahir deserved a bit extra respect.
Wiese tweeted, “Absolutely shocking what’s going on with the @OfficialCSA media account at the moment. Surely @faf1307 and @ImranTahirSA deserve a bit more respect!!”
Relations between du Plessis and CSA soured after the previous refused to toe the board’s line on balancing his T20 freelancing with nationwide commitments.
Miffed, CSA determined to not embody the batsman and Tahir within the T20 World Cup squad, at the same time as each gamers remained out there for choice.
The 37-year-old du Plessis was Man of the Match within the IPL closing in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders for his blazing 86 off 59 balls.
Du Plessis, who retired from Test cricket earlier this 12 months in February after scoring 4163 runs and missed out on CSA’s central contract, performed his one centesimal IPL match on Friday.
He stays lively in ODIs and T20Is, nonetheless, by which he has scored 5507 and 1528 runs respectively.