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Previous South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has alluded to a rebound to global cricket in front of the impending T20 World Cup, saying that he has been in conversation with the Porteas' white-ball mentor Deny Walter for the recent years.

Du Plessis last highlighted in a T20I quite a while back in 2020. While his last counterpart for South Africa was a Test against Pakistan in February 2021.

"I accept that I can get back to global cricket," du Plessis told the telecaster of Abu Dhabi T10 association.

"We have been talking about this for the most recent few years. It's simply sorting out the equilibrium of the T20 World Cup one year from now. It's positively something we have spoken about with the new mentor," he added.

Regardless of not highlighting for South Africa, du Plessis has been doing great in the homegrown circuit as well as in T20 associations across the world.

With 730 runs from 14 games for the Regal Challengers Bangalore, du Plessis was the second most elevated run getter in the IPL recently.

The 39-year-old drove South Africa in the 2014 and 2016 T20 World Cups however wasn't considered for the last two releases of the competition, in spite of never authoritatively resigning from white-ball cricket.

On Monday, South Africa white-ball mentor Walter said any semblance of du Plessis, Quinton de Kock and Rilee Rossouw will be considered for the T20 World Cup, booked to be played in June one year from now in the West Indies and the USA.

"Considering that a portion of our bleeding edge bowlers are passing up a major opportunity and there are folks - let me toss it out there just to make a few media publicity - like Faf (du Plessis) and Rilee (Rossouw) as well as Quinny (De Kock) that could well be considered for a T20 World Cup and afterward additionally the SA20 that occurs one year from now - 80% of the side picks itself yet there is certainly a space for different folks to find themselves mixed up with the discussion," Walter said.