In the zone: de Kock’s 174 in opposition to Bangladesh is the highest rating by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup match
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Key participant: South Africa stand-in captain Markram says de Kock is valued by the group way more than his exploits on the discipline.
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EMMANUAL YOGINI
“DE KOCK Please don’t retire after this World Cup.”
A spectator in the MCA Pavilion at the Wankhede Stadium right here held a hand-written poster throughout Tuesday’s World Cup tie between South Africa and Bangladesh.
Considering the dream run that Quinton de Kock has had in this edition so far, calls for him to reverse his decision to retire from ODIs after the World Cup could get louder after Sunday’s Rugby World Cup closing.
Now that de Kock has topped the run-scoring charts, thanks to his three a whole lot in 5 innings together with Tuesday’’ record-breaking 174, the retirement discuss has maybe taken a back-seat, not less than for the South Africa change-room.
“It’s easy to score a hundred and then sort of take a back seat, but every single day that that he comes to training and the games that he has played so far, you know, scoring three hundreds in five innings is a pretty special effort,” Jean-Paul Duminy, South Africa’s batting coach, mentioned on Tuesday.
“Knowing the character that he is, he is certainly not going to rest on that. He has got great ambitions to go all the way and be a real strong performer for the team.”
Aiden Markram, the South Africa stand-in captain throughout its back-to-back wins in Mumbai, careworn that de Kock is valued by the group way more than his exploits on the discipline.
“We all know Quinton to be the free-spirited guy that he is, but he actually has a fantastic cricket brain on him. He assesses the conditions really well and communicates that to us off the field even before we walk out to bat,” Markram mentioned. “It adds a lot of value in that regard. And then you never want to clip his wings really. You just want to let him fly. He structures it the exact way he feels need, and we back that completely as a unit.”
Record run
de Kock’s 174 in opposition to Bangladesh is the highest rating by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup match, surpassing Adam Gilchrist’s 149 throughout Australia’s 2007 closing win over Sri Lanka
de Kock’s 174 is the second-highest particular person rating by a South African in Men’s World Cup, after Gary Kirsten’s 188 not out in opposition to UAE in 1996
On Tuesday, de Kock grew to become solely the sixth batter to have scored 300 in a single Men’s World Cup edition.
He is the main run-getter in this edition with 407 runs from 5 video games.
