Quinton de Kock: South African wicketkeeper batsman Quinton de Kock is currently playing in SA20. He is part of Sunrisers Eastern Cape in this tournament. In the ongoing league, Sunrisers Eastern Cape faced Pretoria Capitals on 29 December. In this match, wicketkeeper batsman Quinton de Kock achieved a big achievement. He has become the first wicketkeeper to score 10 thousand runs as an opener in T20.
Quinton de Kock played a brilliant inning of 77 runs.
In the match against Pretoria Capitals, De Kock played an innings of 77 runs on 47 balls. During this, he hit five fours and 6 sixes. During this time, he became the first wicketkeeper to score 10 thousand runs as an opener. No player before him has been able to achieve this feat till now. Right now there is no other player near him in this record list. Quinton de Kock will once again be seen playing for Mumbai Indians in the upcoming IPL season. He was bought by Mumbai in the mini auction at the base price of Rs 2 crore.
Names of these batsmen also included in top-5
The name of Mohammad Rizwan of Pakistan is at second place in the list. Mohammad Rizwan has scored 6284 runs in 159 matches as an opener and wicketkeeper in T20. Jos Buttler’s name is at number three in the list. He has scored 5104 runs in 143 matches. Pakistan’s Kamran Akmal is at fourth place in the list with 4493 runs. Whereas his compatriot Mohammad Shahzad is at fifth position after scoring 3894 runs in 149 matches.
Sunrisers set a target of 189 runs in front of Pretoria
Talking about the match played between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals, the Sunrisers Eastern team, batting first, scored 188 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Quinton de Kock, Matthew Britzke also scored a half-century in this match. He was out after scoring 52 runs in 33 balls with the help of 7 fours and one six. Whereas Jordan Harman scored 37 runs on 20 balls. Talking about bowling, Tymal Mills took maximum 2 wickets, while Lungi Ngidi, Vihaan Lubbe, Bryce Parsons got 1 wicket each. Now it remains to be seen whether the Pretoria team achieves this target or not.
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