Quinton de Kock (born 17 December 1992) is a former captain of the Proteas in all three formats and a South African international cricketer. He has played domestically for the Titans, in the Indian Premier League for the Mumbai Indians, and internationally for South Africa. He was selected Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's 2017 Annual Awards.
De Kock made his domestic debut with the Highveld Lions in the 2012/2013 season as an opening batsman and wicketkeeper. When he and Neil McKenzie performed in a match-winning partnership in the Champions League T20 against the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, he instantly drew the attention of the national selectors (IPL). Despite playing only six of the ten matches that summer, he finished fourth in the first-class standings.
Quinton de Kock made his debut for Gauteng as a 16-year-old in South Africa's first-class arena in 2009. De Kock, a left-handed batsman, and wicketkeeper was a key player of South Africa's Under-19 team at the 2012 ICC Under-19 World Cup in Townsville.
Quinton de Kock's IPL success:
His squad finished third in the competition after a tenacious fifty in the third-place play-off against New Zealand. He was added to the Lions' T20 team for the Champions League in late 2012 after representing them in their home T20 competition. The selectors were so impressed with his performance that they recruited him into South Africa's T20I team for the next year's series against New Zealand. Later that year, he was selected by the Hyderabad franchise for the Indian T20 League.
He was at his finest in the year 2013. In the ODI series against New Zealand, he was selected as a replacement wicketkeeper for AB de Villers. Though his performance wasn't particularly memorable, there was something about this young man that drew the selectors in. De Kock began to show his true colors later in the year. He stated that he was finally ready to take the world by storm when he scored his first century in ODIs against Pakistan, and he accomplished just that when the Indians came calling later in the year. De Kock scored 300 runs in the three-match ODI series that followed, the most by any batter in a three-match bilateral series. He was purchased by the Delhi franchise in 2014 and will play for them in the Indian T20 League's seventh edition.
De Kock is still just in his teens, so time is on his side, and if he stays fit and healthy, he might be South Africa's and international cricket's next big thing.
He begins the batting for the Mumbai Indians and is one of the most entertaining wicket-keeper batsmen in the world. The left-handed batsman enjoys attacking bowlers, and his style of play is well-suited to the shorter version of the game.
Quinton de Kock had a fantastic 2020 season, hitting 503 runs at the top of the order, including four half-centuries. The left-hander has a fantastic rapport with his opening partner, Rohit Sharma, and his explosive hitting helps the MI skipper at the other end. MI's success will be determined by his form and performance.
Quinton de Kock's overall statistics are as follows:
