The Protean batter broke fairly a couple of data en-route to his record-equalling fourth century as he turned solely the third participant after Kumar Sangakkara and Rohit Sharma to register 4 centuries in a single version of the match.
De Kock additionally made 100 towards Sri Lanka, 109 within the sport with Australia and 174 within the victory over Bangladesh.
Sangakkara achieved the feat within the 2015 version in Australia, whereas Rohit reached his landmark within the 2019 version of the match in England. De Kock is now simply two wanting breaking Indian skipper Rohit’s document of 5 lots of in a single World Cup version which he did within the final version of the occasion. And the best way South African opener is batting you would possibly see him ending up with the document.
“I believe so (finest kind). I’m feeling actually good these days. Good that all the things is coming collectively at an essential time for us. They bowled rather well upfront, particularly Boulty. I felt fairly scratchy upfront, I could not discover my rhythm, I used to be getting a few messages from the blokes on the bench to bat by means of. I simply wish to preserve batting,” de Kock mentioned within the mid-innings interplay.
“My profession is coming right down to a end, attempting to bat as a lot as I can. If the wicket stays the identical, will probably be ok. The wicket does get higher below lights. 357 is at all times a very good rating, however we’re taking part in towards a very good workforce, let’s examine what occurs,” he added.
Within the course of, de Kock (22) surpassed Australian Adam Gilchrist’s (19) landmark of hitting most sixes by a wicketkeeper-batter in ODI World Cups. One other South African Mark Boucher (15) is third on the record adopted by former Indian captain MS Dhoni (15).
De Kock, who might be retiring from ODIs after the World Cup, achieved yet one more feat by turning into the highest run-getter as wicket-keeper with 545* runs to his title in a single World Cup version. He overtook Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara (541) who beforehand held the document made within the 2015 version. By the way, Sanga (465) bettered his earlier feat of 2011 World Cup earlier than breaking Gilchrist’s document of 453 runs within the 2007 World Cup.
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The left-handed opener scored 114 off 116 balls – his twenty first ODI ton with – the assistance of 10 fours and three sixes. He additionally turned the primary batsman to achieve 500 runs within the ongoing version.
The 30-year-old, who will stop ODIs when this match is over, leads the World Cup run chart forward of Australia’s David Warner (413) and New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra (406).
