{"id":9964,"date":"2025-12-11T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670321"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:13:44","slug":"ind-vs-sa-2nd-t20i-quinton-de-kock-slams-17th-t20i-fifty-in-just-26-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-sa-2nd-t20i-quinton-de-kock-slams-17th-t20i-fifty-in-just-26-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs SA, 2nd T20I: Quinton de Kock slams 17th T20I fifty in just 26 balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"524\">South Africa got off to a flying start in the 2nd T20I in New Chandigarh as <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"356\">Quinton de Kock<\/strong> brought up a blazing half-century, reaching his <strong data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"424\">17th T20I fifty<\/strong> off just <strong data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"446\">26 balls<\/strong>. At 8.3 overs, South Africa were <strong data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"488\">75\/1<\/strong>, scoring at <strong data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"523\">8.82 runs per over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"765\">De Kock reached the milestone with a stylish boundary off <strong data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"601\">Hardik Pandya<\/strong>, who delivered a low full toss on middle and leg. The left-hander whipped it towards deep mid-wicket, beating the diving fielder in the deep to bring up his fifty.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"996\">At the other end, skipper <strong data-start=\"793\" data-end=\"810\">Aiden Markram<\/strong> was batting on <strong data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"839\">11 off 15<\/strong>, while India\u2019s breakthrough came earlier when <strong data-start=\"886\" data-end=\"905\">Reeza Hendricks<\/strong> was dismissed for 8 by <strong data-start=\"929\" data-end=\"952\">Varun Chakaravarthy<\/strong>, leaving South Africa at 38\/1 in 4.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1116\">The visitors have scored <strong data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1054\">47 runs in the last 5 overs<\/strong>, maintaining strong momentum after India opted to bowl first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa got off to a flying start in the 2nd T20I in New Chandigarh as Quinton de Kock brought\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","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=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}