Quinton de Kock played as an opening batter for South Africa in the second ODI against Pakistan on Thursday, November 6, and remained unbeaten on 123 runs from 119 balls. During his stay at the crease in the 270-run chase at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, the left-handed batter hammered 8 fours and 7 sixes. The century by De Kock in the match that South Africa won by 8 wickets to level the series helped him equal former Sri Lankan batter Kumar Sangakkara’s world record of most centuries as a designated wicketkeeper-batter in white-ball cricket.

During his 15-year-long international career, Sangakkara played 360 ODIs and 56 T20Is for Sri Lanka as a wicketkeeper-batter and scored 23 centuries. On the other hand, De Kock has slammed 22 centuries in 156 ODIs and one century in 95 T20Is as t

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