The Antigua crowd experienced one of the most thrilling matches of the T20 World Cup 2024. After a successful group stage, the tournament is now witnessing a thrilling Super Eight stage. In the second match of the Super Eight stage, South Africa locked horns with the United States of America. In this match, Quinton de Kock played an amazing knock which gave a huge boost. Depending on that amazing contribution, he has been named the Player of the match. After that, he reflected on the match.
De Kock’s Innings and His Words:
After being unbeaten, South Africa entered into the Super Eight stage. In their first match at this stage, they faced the USA. while batting first in the match, the South African batters set the stage on fire. After facing a few setbacks in previous games, Quinton de Kock played an excellent innings, while opening the innings, he scored an amazing half-century and played an innings of 74 runs in 40 words. That gave a huge boost to South Africa’s innings.
After winning the player of the Match award after this contribution, de Kock reflected on this match. He said, “There have been a few tricky wickets, nice to spend time out there. USA put us under pressure, it was a great game. Just trying to focus on scoring runs, rest of it will take care of itself. We have had a few tricky wickets coming into this game, so it was great to be out there.”
Aiming Next Targets:
This match was just the beginning for South Africa in the Super Eight stage. They gave a great start to the tournament and carried their form forward. Starting from the group stage, they are still unbeaten in the group stage. They defeated the USA by 18 runs. In the next match, they will face England. Before that Quinton de Kock talked about their goal.
He said, “We still have a few games to win, we are coming up against big teams. It was a good game, but it changes next time. Different venue, different team, so you never know what’s out there.”
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