Jacobus Leus du Plooy (born 12 January 1995) is a Hungarian-South African

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er who plays for

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. He was included in the Free State squad for the 2016 Africa T20 Cup. In August 2017, he was named in

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's squad for the first season of the

T20 Global League The Mzansi Super League (MSL) was a Twenty20 cricket (T20) franchise league held in South Africa. The competition was established in 2018 by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as a replacement for the failed T20 Global League, but only two editions wer ...

. However, in October 2017,

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initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after. In September 2018, he was named in Northerns' squad for the

2018 Africa T20 Cup The 2018 Africa T20 Cup was the fourth and final edition of the Africa T20 Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in South Africa in September 2018, as a curtain-raiser to the 2018–19 South African domestic season. Provincial side Kwa ...

. He was the leading run-scorer for Northerns in the tournament, with 145 runs in four matches. He was also the leading run-scorer in the 2018–19 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge, with 593 runs in eleven matches, and the leading run-scorer for Northerns in the

2018–19 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup The 2018–19 CSA 3-Day Provincial Cup was a first-class cricket competition that took place in South Africa from 4 October 2018 to 14 April 2019. This was the first edition of the tournament not to be sponsored by Sunfoil, after they decided n ...

, with 647 runs in eleven matches. In April 2019, Du Plooy signed a two-year contract to play

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in England, joining

as a Kolpak player. In April 2022, he was bought by the

Welsh Fire Welsh Fire ( cy, Tân Cymreig) are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Cardiff. The team represents the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Glamorgan, Gloucestershire and Somerset in the newly founded competiti ...

for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

Personal life

Leus is of Hungarian descent and holds a Hungarian passport.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plooy, Leus du 1995 births Living people Cricketers from Pretoria South African cricketers South African people of Hungarian descent Hungarian people of South African descent Free State cricketers Northerns cricketers Knights cricketers Titans cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Welsh Fire cricketers