Quinton de Kock breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s old record, surpasses Virender Sehwag
Wicketkeeper batsman Quinton de Kock, who has always proved to be a threat to India, once again appeared in his old style. South African opener De Kock scored a century in the third and final match against India at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. He scored 124 runs in 130 balls with the help of 12 fours and two sixes. After this innings, de Kock broke the old record of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Apart from Sachin, De Kock also equaled the record of compatriot AB de Villiers, demolishing the record of Virender Sehwag. South Africa beat India by 4 runs in the 3rd ODI to take the series 3-0 clean.
A classy century from Quinton de Kock 🙏 #SAvIND #BetwayODISeries #BePartOfIt pic.twitter.com/pkgBaROJ2u
— Proteas Men (@ProteasMenCSA) January 23, 2022
Sachin Tendulkar broke the old record
De Kock completed his century off 109 balls. This is the 17th century of his ODI career. With this, he has broken Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most centuries in the bilateral ODI series between India vs South Africa. Sachin had the most five centuries in the bilateral ODI series between India and South Africa. But now de Kock has got six centuries against India in ODIs.
Quinton de Kock pounded his 6⃣th ODI ton against #India today at Cape Town, equaling the likes of de Villiers, Ponting and Sangakkara 🙌
He needs two more 💯s to surpass Jayasuriya for the record of most hundreds against India in ODIs 🥇🥈#CricketTwitter #SAvIND pic.twitter.com/ob2iqIvaWT
— Cricwick (@Cricwick) January 23, 2022
Equals record of Ricky Ponting and Kumar Sangakkara
This was also De Kock’s sixth century in ODIs against India and he has equaled the record of Australian great Ricky Ponting and former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara, who scored six each against India in ODIs. Scored a century Sanath Jayasuriya holds the record for most centuries in ODIs against India. Jayasuriya has scored 7 centuries in 85 innings against India.
De Kock also broke Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist’s record
With the 17th century of his ODI career, de Kock broke the record of former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist, who held the record for scoring the second most centuries as a wicketkeeper in ODIs. In this case, Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka is still on top, who has 23 centuries as a wicketkeeper.
17th ODI ton for Quinton de Kock! 🎉
He goes level with Jacques Kallis' ODI century count 👏🏻
South Africa are 173/3 in the 31st over.
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— ICC (@ICC) January 23, 2022
Overtakes Sehwag in terms of being the fastest to complete 6 centuries
South Africa’s opener De Kock has completed the fastest six centuries against an opposing team. He has broken Sehwag’s record in this case. Sehwag was New Zealand’s fastest six hundreds in 23 innings, while De Kock scored six centuries in 16 innings against India.
