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Faf du Plessis escapes #mintgate ban: Twitter reacts

South Africa’s stand-in captain has been fined over the sweet/sour furore that has left the Australian media gnashing their teeth since the second Test Down Under. Here’s what the internet thinks.

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1. Ahh the sweet taste of success.

4. That’ll piss on their mints.

6. A tap-in, to mix the sporting metaphor.



7. Other bodily functions are available.

8. Boom. It was the ICC, not Australia, really. But let’s keep having fun.

9. Sure. And let’s bring back hanging for traffic wardens while we’re at it.

11. Du Plessis: One of the greatest threats facing the world today.

12. ‘I plead not Balti, my lord.’

13. #everythingmustfall #absolutelyeverythingmustfall

14. But the plot thickens (no it doesn’t).

15. Oh dear. Ahem.