Du Plessis: I didn't cheat, ball too close to zip

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Cape Town: Faf du Plessis says he's not a trick yet did rub a cricket ball "excessively close" to a dash on his trousers, accelerating the South African batsman's fine for ball altering
in the second Test against Pakistan. In his section for Supersport, Du Plessis denied he was attempting to trick in spite of the fact that he confessed in the, composition "that is not the sort of individual I am." Then again, he says "I'll be the first to concede that I was working it dreadfully near my zip." Du Plessis was fined half his match charge in the wake of being found on Tv working the ball over the pocket zip, a discipline reprimanded by Pakistan authorities as too permissive. He says the ball was not influenced "and that is the reason I suppose my punishment was not as brutal." The International Cricket Council (Icc), while reacting to Pakistan Cricket Board's (Pcb) letter to dissent the "meagre" discipline gave to South African player Faf du Plessis for ball-altering in correlation to the one handed out to all-rounder Shahid Afridi for the same offence in Australia two years back, has defended the match-refs' choice in the two cases. "The Icc expressed that both cases have been managed on legitimacy and on distinctive grounds," said Pcb's Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad while conversing with columnists here on Thursday. He further said that the Icc embraced the stance since it was despite anything that might have happened before that du Plessis had been included