{"id":22444,"date":"2025-12-12T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670537"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:25:18","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-which-team-is-quinton-de-kock-playing-for-in-ipl-2026-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-which-team-is-quinton-de-kock-playing-for-in-ipl-2026-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: Which team is Quinton de Kock playing for in IPL 2026? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"460\">South African wicketkeeper-batter <strong data-start=\"243\" data-end=\"298\">Quinton de Kock delivered a vintage T20 masterclass<\/strong>, smashing <strong data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"333\">90 off just 46 balls<\/strong> in the second T20I against India at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"792\">De Kock brought up his half-century in just <strong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"523\">26 deliveries<\/strong>, taking the attack to the Indian bowlers and giving South Africa a powerful platform while setting up their total. His fluent stroke-making and clean ball-striking reminded fans of the kind of impact he has consistently brought to top-level T20 cricket over the years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"1050\">Interestingly, the left-hander enters this performance <strong data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"872\">without an IPL team<\/strong>. He was released by <strong data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"918\">Kolkata Knight Riders<\/strong> after the 2025 season and will now feature in the upcoming <strong data-start=\"978\" data-end=\"1003\">IPL 2026 mini-auction<\/strong>, registered at a <strong data-start=\"1021\" data-end=\"1049\">base price of Rs 1 crore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1052\" data-end=\"1183\">De Kock will appear in <strong data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1084\">Set 3<\/strong>, which includes other capped wicketkeepers such as <strong data-start=\"1136\" data-end=\"1182\">Jonny Bairstow, Jamie Smith and Finn Allen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1461\">At 32, the experienced Proteas batter remains one of the most travelled overseas players in the league, having represented <strong data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1326\">six franchises<\/strong> \u2014 Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Mumbai Indians, Lucknow Super Giants, and Kolkata Knight Riders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1673\">In the IPL, he has played <strong data-start=\"1489\" data-end=\"1504\">115 matches<\/strong>, scoring <strong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1527\">3309 runs<\/strong> at an average of <strong data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1554\">30.63<\/strong> and a strike rate of <strong data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1586\">134.02<\/strong>, making him one of the most reliable wicketkeeper-batters in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"1862\">With Thursday\u2019s explosive knock arriving just days before the auction, de Kock\u2019s name is expected to draw renewed attention from teams seeking an aggressive top-order wicketkeeper option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock delivered a vintage T20 masterclass, smashing 90 off just 46 balls in the second\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}