4 min learnJan 30, 2026 08:23 PM IST
Heard of a batsman forgetting his kitbag containing bats and hating a global hundred with a bat borrowed from a team-mate? That’s what former South African captain Quinton de Kock did when he hit his second T20I hundred within the type of a 49-ball knock of 115 towards West Indies within the second T20I at Centurion on Thursday. The 33-year-old had forgotten his kitbags at a lodge close to the coast earlier than he realised the error however with the flight time between the coast and Tremendous Sport Park being greater than two hours, de Kock needed to borrow the bats. With South Africa profitable the match by seven wickets, de Kock would communicate in regards to the mistake and the way he regarded across the equipment baggage within the dressing room and picked team-mate Brevis’ bat.
“I felt a bit silly once I observed earlier. I’ve acquired some new baggage over the past 12 months, so I used to be going by means of all fine details, and I simply went clean. I don’t know, I forgot. I went a bit white once I realised I needed to make one or two telephone calls half-an-hour earlier than the bus was leaving (to try to get them again). Earlier than I acquired into the change room, I went trying round between (Dewald) Brevis and Ricks (Ryan Rickelton) and I simply pulled one out of Brevis’s bag. I stated, ‘I’m simply going to make use of this one at the moment’. Brevis stated, ‘It’s tremendous, it’s a great bat for you as a result of it’s a left-handed bat’. And I used to be like, ‘Wow! Children lately!,” de Kock stated after the match whereas talking with reporters.
The 33-year-old opener stitched collectively a 162-run second wicket partnership with Ryan Rickelton (77) and fell to Akeal Hosein within the fifteenth over with a miscued shot. It was de Kock’s second hundred in T20Is and his earlier T20I hundred too had come towards West Indies on the identical floor within the second T20I in 2023. The previous South African captain smashed ten sixes and 6 boundaries throughout his keep on the crease. He was rested together with Tristan Stubbs and Marco Jansen for the primary T20I at Paarl and shall be taking part in the third and final T20I at Johannesburg earlier than the South African workforce flies to India for the ICC T20 World Cup. The xx-year-old shared about the truth that he shall be utilizing his personal bats in case they arrive in time and the bat utilized in Thursday’s sport shall be going again to Brevis. “If my bats come earlier than the following sport, I shall be utilizing my very own bats so no, that bat goes again to Brevis. To be sincere, I didn’t actually get pleasure from it. The load was misplaced for me. It’s for kids who swing laborious. So I received’t be having it again at any time,” stated de Kock.
South Africa leads the three match T2-I collection 2-0. The workforce had received the opening match of the collection at Paarl by 9 wickets. De Kock additionally spoke about how he loved his knock and the wicket being ‘superb’. “The wicket was superb and we performed accordingly. It was very nice,” he stated. “I’m a type of guys that choose actually working laborious on laborious batting wickets, working laborious from being actually intelligent, being road good, Tonight the wicket was that good you may simply bat. I actually loved my innings. It was nice and we received the sport. However to be sincere, in T20 cricket, I’ve labored more durable for my runs, which supplies me much more satisfaction,” added de Kock.