Th💃e duel between Australia’s premier fast bowler Mitchell Starc and South African skipper Quinton de Kock turned out to be one of the most🐎 anticipated events during the current Australian tour of South Africa.
This time around, it was Starc w🎀ho got the better off the South African skipper on almost all occasions they face🐟d off against each other.
Coming into the Bloemfontein ODI, South Africa m𝄹anaged to lead the series by 1-0, with their massive win at Paarl.
Chasing 272, Starc greeted de Kock with another thunderbolt, fuller in length, in his very first over. De Kock, with hisꦚ🐟 bat coming down at an angle from the third man, could not defend the incoming ball and missed it comprehensively. As a result, the southpaw lost his middle stump yet again to Starc.
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De Kock cleaned up second ball by Starc as South Africa's pursuit of 272 to beat Australia suffers early blow 🇿🇦🇦🇺
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Earlier, Starc delivered a similar in-swinging delivery to De Kock in the Johannesburg T20I, and the Cape Town T20I. The left-hander lost his middle stump on bo♊th occasions, early on in his innings.
It seems 💫that the Protean has no clue about dealing with the swinging thunderbolts from Starc off-late. Also, it can be safely assumed that Starc’s pace and lengths surely did a number 🍬on the talented opening batsman of South Africa.
However, his recurring dismissals to Starc were shortly overshadowed by South Africa’s first series win in over 12-months, in all formats. Soutꦜh Africa, with their 6-wicket win in the second ODI, clinched the 3-match series by 2-0. The last ODI will be played at 💜Potchefstroom on Saturday.
