De Kock’s knock noticed him personal the report of highest rating for a chosen wicketkeeper in World Cup historical past, going previous Adam Gilchrist‘s 149 within the 2007 remaining towards Sri Lanka.
The left-handed batter, who clobbered 15 fours and 7 sixes throughout his 140-ball keep on the crease, additionally turned the primary South African batter to attain three centuries in a single World Cup.
De Kock’s newest century adopted scores of 100 and 109 throughout South Africa’s opening two matches towards Sri Lanka and Australia respectively.
He reached his 20th century in his 150th ODI and was on the verge of doubtless turning into the third batsman to attain a double century within the World Cup when he mistimed a shot and despatched the ball to deep backward level, lacking out on the chance.
The 30-year-old de Kock went previous India’s Virat Kohli for many runs and likewise eclipsed Australia’s David Warner (163) to report the best particular person rating on this World Cup.
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The wicketkeeper-batsman turned the one seventh South African participant to attain greater than 12,000 worldwide runs and now has 12,160 runs in 284 worldwide matches.
South Africa was in a precarious state of affairs at 36-2 after profitable the toss. Nevertheless, de Kock’s partnership for the third wicket with stand-in captain Aiden Markram, who contributed 60, altered the course of the match in favour of the Proteas.
Subsequently, he teamed up with Heinrich Klaasen, forming a considerable partnership of 142 for the fourth wicket, propelling South Africa comfortably past the 300-run mark.
