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Quinton de Kock is a South African international cricketer and was born on 17 December 1992. Recently, he has been declared as the captain of the South Africa national cricket team. He is also known for his nature in the cricket ground and emerged as one of the most promising young wicket keepers of this decade.

Kock has completed his high school studies from King Edward Vll High school, the same as of his compatriots Graeme Smith and Neil Mckenzie. He made his first-class debut for the national T20 team against the visiting New Zealand in 2012.

Kock has put on with a lot of efforts just to impressed his selectors so that they could give him a chance to play in an international match and to which he does get a chance and now he is the captain of his cricket team.

Full nameQuinton de Kock
ProfessionCricketer
Born17 December 1992 (age 27)
WifeSasha Hurly
NationalitySouth African
 Nickname Quinny
ReligionChristianity
HobbiesListening to music, Fishing, and Travelling
Marital statusMarried
Age (as in 2020)28 Years

 Career statistics                 

Competition                  Test             0DI               T20l                                                                                           
Runs                            2,934            5,135              1,226
Matches                          47                 121               44               
 Avg                              39.12             44.65              31.43
Top score                 129               178              79                                                                   

Early life 

Quinton de Kock is a South African international cricketer and recently has been declared as a captain of  South Africa’s cricket team. In the year 2012, he was selected to play in ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup and also that he scored 95  out of 131 balls in South Africa’s first match against Bangladesh in which the team won by 133 runs. In 2013 he was selected to play in the Twenty20 tournament in South Africa and on 18 February 2013, in the same tournament against Cape Cobras he hit the second-highest T20 scored 126 runs in South Africa.

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 In October 2018, he was named in Cape Town Blitz’s squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament. On 22 July 2018 during the second test match against Sri Lanka, he became one of the fastest wicketkeepers. He also has a girlfriend name Sasha Hurly and finally gets married in September 2016.

International career

Quinton de Kock is a famous South African international cricketer, who plays for the South African international cricket team. He has put on with a lot of efforts just to be selected in that cricket team and is the former captain of the South African cricket team. He made his first-class debut by playing for the Under-19 world cup and scored almost the highest runs in that particular match.

After that, he also played in many ODIs and Twenty20. In November 2013, he was selected in the first XI of South Africa against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. In the year 2017, he was named as a wicketkeeper of the World ODI XI by ICC. In 2013 de Kock was named for IPL tournament but, he somehow failed to impressed his selectors. In the IPL tournament, he played for Mumbai Indians in 2019.

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Quinton de Kock with his GF
Quinton de Kock wit His Girlfriend

Facts

  • Quinton de Kock is a South African cricketer.
  • He was born on 17 December 1992 in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province.
  • He got a nickname from his friends that was Quinny.
  • Quinton is also known for his fastest wicketkeeping in terms of matches (35) to take 150 test dismissals.
  • He was the only the second wicket-keeper opener while captaining the side to score a century in ODIs and one of the fastest South African to a T2Ol a half-century (in 17 balls).
  • De Kock married his girlfriend Sasha Hurly (a cheerleader) in the year 2016.

Media Interaction           

 Quinton de Kock is a very famous South African cricketer and a good personality. He consistently keeps in touch with his loved ones like his fans through social media platforms-Instagram, twitter, and Facebook. After being the captain of the South African cricket team, he has a lot of fan following. His Instagram id is (@qdk-12) and that of twitter is (@Quinny DeKock69), he is a calm person and yet does not have any controversies.

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