Continuing his brilliant performance in the ICC World Cup, opener Quinton de Kock played a brilliant innings to help South Africa post a huge score against Bangladesh. De Kock scored his third century of the 2023 World Cup at the Wankhede Stadium.
Quinton de Kock left Adam Gilchrist behind :-
Due to his brilliant inning of 174 runs in 140 balls against Bangladesh, De Kock has broken many big records. De Kock has achieved the feat of scoring the most runs as a wicket-keeper batsman in an ICC event, breaking the 16-year-old World Cup record. The African opener surpassed Australia’s Adam Gilchrist, who scored 149 against Sri Lanka in the 2007 ODI World Cup final.
First team Africa to score more than 350 thrice :-
You should also know that thanks to this inning, the Proteas batsman Quinton de Kock has also recorded the second highest individual score for South Africa in World Cup cricket. The record of making the highest score for South Africa is in the name of Gary Kirsten who played a record inning of 188* runs against UAE in the 1996 World Cup.
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This was his third score of over 150 as a wicketkeeper in ODIs. No wicketkeeper-batsman has recorded more 150+ scores in the 50-over format than De Kock. Apart from this, due to De Kock’s stormy innings, South Africa has become the first team to score more than 350 thrice in the same edition of the World Cup.
De Kock also left Kohli-Rohit behind:-
Apart from this, De Kock has also left behind the great Indian batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. Quinton de Kock has now become the highest run-scorer in the World Cup 2023, having scored more runs than Virat’s 354 runs and Rohit Sharma’s 311 runs. De Kock has scored 407 runs in 5 matches of the World Cup.
The way De Kock is performing, it seems that whenever there is talk of World Cup 2023 in the future, the name of De Kock will come first in people’s mind, not Virat Kohli or Sharma Sharma.
