Prasidh Krishna has made a remarkable turnaround with his second spell in Visakhapatnam. The bowler was abused by Quinton de Kock in his first spell, but he came back to deliver a full-length delivery, attacking the stumps, and de Kock was clean bowled trying to hit it across the line.
Quinton de Kock revived his old form against India and played a brilliant innings. The South African reversed his international retirement to make a comeback in the series against Pakistan. With some confidence, he showed great form in Pakistan with a century and two half-centuries before reaching the Indian subcontinent.
De Kock has enjoyed batting in the subcontinent and against arch rivals India. Their record in India is very good, and this was evident when South Africa played the 2023 World Cup in the subcontinent, and De Kock was one of their leading run-scorers.
Prasidh Krishna uprooted Quinton de Kock’s stumps
Quinton de Kock returned to great form in the ODI series decider in Visakhapatnam. The left-handed opening batsman struggled against the swinging ball in the powerplay, but broke the shackles when Prasidh Krishna was brought into the attack. He helped South Africa gain momentum in the middle overs and himself completed his century in 80 balls.
This century is Quinton de Kock’s seventh ODI century in 23 innings against India. However, wickets were falling from the other end; Therefore, there was constant pressure on the only set batsman at the crease to play big hits. Krishna, who bowled brilliantly in his second spell, had already taken the wickets of Matthew Britzke and Aiden Markram.
Krishna targeted the stumps with a full delivery and pace. QDK tried to hit it blindly and the ball went under his bat and hit the off and middle stump out of the ground.
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Once again famous Krishna got success #TeamIndia
Quinton de Kock was out after scoring 106 runs.
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South Africa’s middle order collapses after Quinton de Kock’s strong start
Quinton de Kock and captain Temba Bavuma gave South Africa a great start with maximum scoring. De Kock scored a century and Bavuma contributed 48 runs in a partnership of 113 runs.
However, after the dismissal of these two batsmen, the rest of South Africa’s batsmen had to struggle in the middle order. The likes of last game’s centurion, Aiden Markram, the consistently good Britzke and aggressive finishers Dewald Brewis and Marco Jansson failed to take advantage of the platform already set by the opener.
South Africa’s struggles prevented them from going past 300, which has been consistent across all innings in this series. Both teams crossed the 300-run mark in all four innings played in the last two ODIs, but not this time.
Kuldeep Yadav took India on top by taking double wicket
After Prasidh Krishna produced a brilliant performance in the second spell, which cleaned out South Africa’s middle-order, spinner Kuldeep Yadav was brought back into the attack along with the two biggest hitters of the South African lineup against the chinaman bowler.
He provoked both of them to hit across the line and dismissed both Dewald Brewis and Marco Jansson in the same over. The bait worked for KL Rahul, and he paid off the spinner with the third wicket of Corbyn Bosch, who has been the pillar of South Africa’s death overs batting.
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