da aviator aposta: Quinton de Kock’s fluent century and his unbroken 199-run stand with Gihahn Cloete helped South Africa U-19 to a thumping nine-wicket win against Zimbabwe U-19 in Cape Town

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Jan-2012
ScorecardQuinton de Kock’s fluent century and his unbroken 199-run stand with Gihahn Cloete helped South Africa U-19 to a thumping nine-wicket win against Zimbabwe U-19 in Cape Town.Zimbabwe chose to bat and ran into all sorts of early trouble as seamer Travis Muller sliced through the top order to leave them 49 for 4. Rabian Engelbrecht then took over, making short work of the middle order to leave the visitors struggling at 73 for 6. The final score of 197 for 8 was a major improvement on the outlook at that stage. It came about thanks to Ryan Burl’s half-century from No. 6 and a couple of contributions in the 20s from the lower order.Yet, the score was woefully inadequate to contain South Africa. de Kock’s 123 off only 106 balls included 13 fours and two sixes, while Cloete struck four fours and two sixes of his own. Together, they hauled in the target with 17.2 overs to spare.