<p class="title">South Africa will not use the ball-tampering scandal which plunged Australian cricket into disgrace earlier this year as a means of winding up the hosts in the upcoming limited overs series, Proteas captain Faf du Plessis said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Australian skipper Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and batsman Cameron Bancroft were all handed lengthy bans for their roles in the scandal during the third test in Cape Town in March.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I don't think us as a team would go there," du Plessis told reporters in Perth after the team arrived for the series, which starts next month and features three one-dayers and one Twenty20 match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's got nothing to do with the cricket - it's in the past.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In terms of what happened in Newlands, that's in the past for us. For us, it's business as usual."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Du Plessis said the tour of Australia would give some of the younger members of his side the opportunity to push for places in the squad for next year's one-day international World Cup in England.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It would also give them a taste of playing in a hostile atmosphere, which will stand them in good stead, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I just go back to Adelaide when I walked out to bat in that night Test match and there were 60,000 people booing," du Plessis said of the match two years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That's what makes home teams so challenging to tour - when you get to a place where the crowd is intimidating.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That's something that youngsters will take a great deal of learning from. It tests your character. And if you get through it, you show yourself more than anyone else what you're capable of.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm hoping that it's there for us as a team just to get used to that difference, especially when you go to a World Cup." </p>
<p class="title">South Africa will not use the ball-tampering scandal which plunged Australian cricket into disgrace earlier this year as a means of winding up the hosts in the upcoming limited overs series, Proteas captain Faf du Plessis said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Australian skipper Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and batsman Cameron Bancroft were all handed lengthy bans for their roles in the scandal during the third test in Cape Town in March.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I don't think us as a team would go there," du Plessis told reporters in Perth after the team arrived for the series, which starts next month and features three one-dayers and one Twenty20 match.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's got nothing to do with the cricket - it's in the past.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"In terms of what happened in Newlands, that's in the past for us. For us, it's business as usual."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Du Plessis said the tour of Australia would give some of the younger members of his side the opportunity to push for places in the squad for next year's one-day international World Cup in England.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It would also give them a taste of playing in a hostile atmosphere, which will stand them in good stead, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I just go back to Adelaide when I walked out to bat in that night Test match and there were 60,000 people booing," du Plessis said of the match two years ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That's what makes home teams so challenging to tour - when you get to a place where the crowd is intimidating.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That's something that youngsters will take a great deal of learning from. It tests your character. And if you get through it, you show yourself more than anyone else what you're capable of.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm hoping that it's there for us as a team just to get used to that difference, especially when you go to a World Cup." </p>