‌SA vs NED | Twitter erupts as nervy de Kock causes huge mix-up to rumination familiar trauma

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BySportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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The game of cricket is more of a mental battle than a physical brawl. As South Africa and Netherlands squared off in New York on Saturday, a trauma from the past haunted the Proteas men with Quinton de Kock ending up with a suicidal run out on the first ball of the innings itself.

Winning the toss and electing to field first paid huge dividends for the Proteas side as their pacers made early inroads to put the opposition on the back foot. Following the lowest-ever powerplay in the ensuing tournament, Sybrand Engelbrecht and Logan van Beek’s 52-run seventh wicket stand helped them reach 103 runs in 20 overs. Subsequently, the Proteas got off to a horrendous start with de Kock and Reeza Hendricks indulging in a huge mix-up to ruminate trauma from the past. 

On the first ball of the opening over, Vivian Kingma sprayed a full ball around the legs of the batter who missed a glance off the pads towards fine leg. Reeza at the striker’s end initiated for a scamper through the strips but de Kock stuttered after trudging off from the bowler’s end. This led to a start-and-stop action from Hendricks who eventually aborted the run to return back while the southpaw was stuck at three-fourth of the pitch towards the striker’s end. With Paul van Meekren making a clean throw from short fine leg, Max O’Dowd ran across and grabbed the ball to whip the bails at the non-striker’s end. 

The huge mix-up on the first ball itself triggered the Twitterverse to draw labels from South Africa’s recent defeats against the Dutch in ICC events.

Huge mess up

Gone for zero

Duck

Opener gone

Underrrated

In the fisrt ball

Good example

In the first ball

Lol

Too often

 

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