Faf du Plessis has quit as South-Africa-captain across all three formats of cricket, but will remain available for selection, CSA announced. Du-Plessis says he wants to take a step-back from captaincy to allow a-new-generation of leaders to develop in the side, with the 35-year-old admitting earlier this year he was not looking at his future in international-cricket beyond the Twenty20-World-Cup in Australia in October.

South-African-captain Faf du Plessis has "learnt" his lessons from the disastrous tour of India four-years-ago and hopes the team's young-members will emerge as improved cricketers after the current Test-series, beginning on Wednesday. South-Africa had no answer to the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, losing the four-match series 0-3. Du Plessis himself had a tough time, scoring just 60-runs in seven innings.