South Africa's T20 captain Faf du Plessis has admitted that playing the Indian Premier League will help his teammates when they take on India in a series of T20 internationals, ODIs and Test matches starting at Dharamsala on October 2. Several South Africans play the IPL and as Chennai Super Kings teammates, Du Plessis has shared the same dressing room as India's skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.