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'Apne akhiri ODI World Cup mein mission par hai' - Fans react as star Proteas batter Quinton de Kock smashes his second century in the ODI World Cup 2023

Notably, it is the last ODI World Cup appearance for Quinton de Kock as he already announced his retirement after the end of ODI World Cup 2023.

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'Apne akhiri ODI World Cup mein mission par hai' - Fans react as star Proteas batter Quinton de Kock smashes his second century in the ODI World Cup 2023

Quinton de Kock (File Photo, Twitter)

Star Proteas wicketkeeper-batter Quinto de Kock once again showed his class with the bat after smashing his second consecutive in the ongoing ODI World Cup 2023. De Kock scored his second century of ODI World Cup 2023 in South Africa’s second match against Australia. notably, both teams are playing this match at the BRSABVE Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.

Aussie skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and asked South Africa to bat first. Batting first, the opening pair of skipper Temba Bavuma and star batter Quinton de Kock provided an outstanding start of 108 runs for the first wicket before the former was trapped by Glenn Maxwell on the individual score of 35 runs.

Quinton de Kock guides South Africa to commanding position

Later, De Kock also stitched a crucial 50-run partnership with number three batter Rassie van der Dussen for the second wicket. Before getting dismissed in an unfortunate manner off the delivery bowled by Glenn Maxwell, De Kock had played a brilliant knock of 109 runs off just 106 balls, hitting 8 fours and 5 sixes, with a strike rate of 102.83.

De Kock’s knock ended at the time when he had added 49 runs for the third wicket with middle-order batter Aiden Markram.

Speaking of the ongoing action of the match, South Africa have scored 246 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 41.3 overs, having Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klassen there in the middle on the individual scores of 43 and 23 runs, respectively. Both the batters have also added a partnership of 49 runs so far, for the fourth wicket.

Glenn Maxwell has scalped 2 wickets for Australia at the cost of just 34 runs in his entire quota of 10 overs. Other than him, star spinner Adam Zampa also picked one wicket for the Aussies.

Notably, Pat Cummins-led Australia are already coming off a six-wicket loss against the hosts, India in their ODI World Cup 2023 campaign opener in Chennai.

Here’s how fans reacted to Quinton de Kock’s second consecutive century in ODI World Cup 2023:

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