‘A Golden Opener for SA after Hashim Amla’ – Fans react as Quinton de Kock scores back-to-back centuries in ODI World Cup 2023

Australia and South Africa are currently eyeing each other for the 10th Match of the ODI World Cup 2023 at the at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket stadium, Lucknow. The South African opening batsman Quinton de smashed the century against Australia. Before the commencement of the ODI World Cup 2023 Quinton announced that he will retire from the ODI format of the game after the tournament. 

Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first and the South Africa cricket team set a decent target as they collectively scored 311 runs after losing 7 wickets. Quinton de Kock scored a quick century against Australia to give South Africa a quick lead in the game. 

Quinton de Kock and Aiden Markram scored 109 and 56 runs off 106 and 44 balls respectively with a strike rate of 102.83 and 127.27. Quinton de Kock hit 8 fours and five sixes before he got bowled by the Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell. Quinton de Kock hit back-to-back centuries as previously he scored a century against Sri Lanka in South Africa’s first match of the tournament. 

Quinton de Kock on Ekana Stadium’s pitch 

Quinton de Kock’s IPL team Lucknow super Giants has helped him perform well on the pitch, before the game against Australia he said, “I think it was just that one game, that’s the way I see it. Especially here in Lucknow, I don’t know what wicket we’re going to get. I have seen how during the IPL and the wickets; we’ve got different varieties of wickets in play.”

“It could come out and it could be a seam-friendly wicket as opposed to a spin-friendly wicket. So we’ll see tomorrow. We’re doing really well as a batting unit; we’ve worked really hard in our game the last couple of years. It’s only one game into the World Cup, so it’s hard to say how we’re really going”, he added. 

Look how the fans reacted: 

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And he is retiring after this WC 🤐😇

— Ishan Joshi (@ishanjoshii) October 12, 2023

A knock to remember

— Satya Prakash (@Satya_Prakash08) October 12, 2023

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