DE KOCK LEADS WITH THE BAT BEFORE PROTEAS QUICKS FINISH JOB

On a day of astonishing batting collapses on which the Standard Bank Proteas lost 9/120 and Sri Lanka then did even worse, losing 9/109, the home side triumphed by a very comfortable 113 runs in the second Momentum One-Day International at SuperSport Park on Wednesday to go 2-0 up in the five-match series. Quinton de Kock’s 94 off 70 balls (17 fours and a six) and to a lesser extent Faf du Plessis’ 57 off 66 balls (7 fours) after the visitors had won the toss and opted to bowl first stood out like beacons of batting brilliance with the only other batsman to go past 30 being Sri Lanka’s Oshada Fernando (31 off 45 balls, 3 fours). In total,...