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In targeting a clean-sweep over Australia, Faf du Plessis has promised South Africa will assert themselves with more than just bat and ball in Cape Town on Wednesday. South Africas stand-in captain wants to see his boys also win the body-language battle ahead of the three-Test series in Australia starting November 3.As a captain, its important the intensity we play at. That does not always mean verbally, its body language and the way you carry yourself on the field, du Plessis said. When there is a battle that asks for another battle to come their way, that will happen. We are a team that will stand up against that. If thats required of us as a team, we will also go into that space, but its a very focused and channeled aggression; more of a body language thing. The only real needle in the ODIs so far came in Port Elizabeth when Matthew Wade and Tabraiz Shamsi had a verbal exchange that earned both of them a a 25% fine of match fee along with one demerit point. Talk became action when Wade took a single and made no effort to avoid running into Shamsi, who protested.Du Plessis took it up with the umpires but was proud of how Shamsi stood up. Its just showing the opposition you are here to play, no matter how many games you have played, du Plessis said. Shamsi has only played three ODIs but he showed he is there to compete, no matter who is on the other side. It was good to see we can also step it up in that department.In the other departments, South Africa have exceeded expectation by dominating against the top-ranked ODI side, which is without their first-choice pace pack. However, du Plessis chose not to dwell on that, instead emphasising on how South Africa have out-batted Australia.I am really impressed with the style of cricket weve played, he said. The first game set the tone for us where Quinton played one of the best one-day knocks you will see and then out-batting has been a level above what weve seen in the past. If you compare that to their batting, which is just as strong possibly on paper, maybe even stronger but they havent matched up with our batters at all. We havent allowed them to compete at times and even when they looked like they were going to compete, we stuck in and waited for the opportunity.The third game in Durban was where Australia threatened their biggest comeback. Their only centuries came in that match as they piled on 371 for 6 before reducing South Africa to 217 for 5. Yet, South Africa found a way, which du Plessis was proud of.In Durban, they were all over us and nine times out of ten, you should lose games like that. It took something magnificent for us to win and its happening more regularly in this team that guys are doing amazing things, he said. The style of cricket we have played has been a new level, hopefully thats something we can drive forward. We need to make sure we keep playing like that because thats the style I would like us to play.South Africa started the season with a culture camp that addressed their dramatic slide from No. 1 to No. 6 in the Test rankings last summer and their early exit from the World T20. They decided on what theyve termed a different direction, which is not about individuals but the collective, aiming to go where no other South African team have been.We want to reach higher levels and achieve greater things than anyone else. From that perspective 5-0 is very important, du Plessis said. The fact that the Test series comes straight after this and 60% to 70% of both teams players are the same, the motivation of 5-0 will mean a lot to me. Jacob Josefson Jersey . -- Al Jefferson found a groove just in time for the Charlotte Bobcats. Nathan Beaulieu Jersey . 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Clippards deal Monday means all eight Nationals players who filed for arbitration wound up settling before a hearing.The European Tour season reaches its climax at this weeks DP World Tour Championship, where four players have the chance of ending the season top of the Race to Dubai standings. Henrik Stenson, Danny Willett, Alex Noren and Rory McIlroy all head to Dubai with a chance of ending 2016 as Europes No 1, with a number of possible permutations set to determine who will take the honours.Open Champion Stenson extended his advantage over the chasing pack to 299,675 points with an eighth-place finish at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, a fortnight on from claiming a share of second at the WGC-HSBC and moving top of the standings. Willett and Stenson occupy the top two places in the standings Willett topped the Order of Merit for a large chunk of the season after winning the Masters in April, with a strong finish at Sun City last week keeping his hopes alive going in to the final event of the season.A fourth win of the campaign saw Alex Noren move inside the worlds top 10 and up in to third in the season-long standings, lifting him within 633,436 points of his Swedish counterpart. Rory McIlroy gives his prediction for who will win the Race to Dubai title McIlroy hasnt featured in either of the first two Final Series events and needs to retain his Dubai crown to have any chance of winning the Race to Dubai for a fourth time.Even if McIlroy does claim a fourth worldwide title of 2016 this week, the Northern Irishman would still need Stenson to miss out on the top 45, Willett to finish outside of the top five and Noren end up runner-up or better this week. McIlroy won last years season finale in Dubai to top the Race to Dubai standings A second trophy in as many weeks from Noren would leave Stenson needing to end runner-up to stay top of the standings. Noren can still top the standings with a runner-up finish, but only if Stenson ends the week ninth or worse and Willett doesnt claim a top-two.ddddddddddddWillett will win the Race to Dubai regardless of other results if he takes the DP World Tour Championship title, while a runner-up finish would be enough should Noren not claim victory and Stenson miss out a top two. Willett finished tied-11th in South Africa last week Heres a look at the other ways the Race to Dubai can be won and lost this week…• For Noren to win, he needs a minimum top-two finish. If he wins in Dubai, then Stenson can still win the Race to Dubai by finishing second.• If Noren finishes second, to win the Race to Dubai he needs Stenson to finish outside of the top eight and Willett outside of the top two. Noren claimed a six-shot win at Sun City • If Willett finishes fourth, Stenson needs to finish 30th or better to stay ahead of him.• If Willett finishes third, Stenson needs to end ninth or higher to remain ahead of him in the race.• If Willett finishes second, he wins the Race to Dubai if Stenson finishes outside the top two and Noren does not win. Live European Tour Golf November 17, 2016, 8:00am Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass • If Willett wins the DP World Tour Championship, he also claims the Race to Dubai title• Stenson wins the Race to Dubai if none of the above scenarios take placeWho will win the Race to Dubai? Watch the DP World Tour Championship from November 17-20 live on Sky Sports 4 - your home of golf Live European Tour Golf November 18, 2016, 8:00am Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Upgrade to Sky Sports now to watch Man Utd v Arsenal this Saturday and get the first six months half price! 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