South Africa have reached a dominant position in the ongoing Test match against West Indies. While they dismissed the hosts for 97 on Day 1 of the opening Test at St Lucia, thanks to efforts from Lungi Ngidi and Anrich Nortje who picked nine wickets between themselves, they have now managed a whopping 225-run lead in the first innings, thanks to an unbeaten hundred from Proetas wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock. The South African star scored 141 from 170 deliveries, with his innings studded with 12 fours and 7 sixes.
Apart from De Kock, only Aiden Markram managed to breach the 50-run mark, scoring 60 from 110 deliveries as South Africa eventually finished with 322. The Proteas will now look to bowl them out under 225 and register an innings-win.
Following Quinton’s performance, reactions have been pouring in from all corners.
Check out a few of these reactions below:
https://twitter.com/CharliePorter12/status/1403417087675187210
Wll done.., well deserved 👌🙌👌🙌👌🙌
— Sammy Mo'Sala (@HumbleMan83) June 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/imraj264/status/1403415519609253894
https://twitter.com/tapslua/status/1403428248458084360
What a day he’s having,given out & reviewed got reversed not out gloved it🤷🏿♀️dropped on 83 went on reaching his century,caught in the boundary and it was a No Ball by Holder you kidding me !!Three lifelines for such a dangerous player pic.twitter.com/w7eT2tt81x
— LLM (@lungelomoss1) June 11, 2021
Long coming , well done QDK
— Jezza 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸 (@JezzaMaqasa) June 11, 2021
My word QDK
One of the finest test knocks ever!!#SavWi #Cricket #WivSA #SAvWI #WestIndies #SouthAfrica #quintondekock— Rajeev Saraf (@sarafrajeev10) June 11, 2021
#QuintonDeKock take a bow you champ! What an extraordinary knock on a difficult surface in a tough situation. 141(170)* was a gem of an innings🙌#WIvsSA
— Tanishq Sharma (@Tanishq72) June 11, 2021
