South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock thrashed a 43-ball century to power the Proteas towards a convincing seven-wicket victory over the West Indies in Centurion on Friday morning AEDT.
The 222-run target was chased down in just 17.3 overs courtesy of de Kock’s 49-ball 115, which featured six boundaries and ten sixes. The 33-year-old combined with Ryan Rickelton (77 not out from 36 balls) for a damaging 162-run partnership for the second wicket to sink the West Indies.
Spinner Akeal Hosein removed de Kock and Dewald Brevis in consecutive overs, but the damage had already been done.
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Earlier, the West Indies posted 4-221 after the Proteas won the toss and chose to bowl first, with Shimron Hetmyer and Sherfane Rutherford cracking half-centuries. South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, who looms as a huge threat on the subcontinent’s dry decks for next month’s T20 World Cup, was comfortably the pick of the bowlers with 2-22 from his four economical overs.
South Africa, who boast an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, will face the West Indies in Sunday’s dead rubber at Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium before travelling to Asia for the ICC tournament.
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