So ....Quinton de Kock

De Kock is struggling technically, that cannot be denied. There is no lack of form issues here, just a lack of application. Part of those struggles might be down to the lack of game time. Aside from the World Cup, where he contributed little, De Kock has not played any long-form cricket. While he did feature in the limited overs matches against Bangladesh, he has not had time to get into the rhythm of Tests. Even with the cricket he has played, some of the rehab routines that he has gone through might have influenced his current approach. As a left-handed player, he would often place weight on his left foot when going for more aggressive shots, the foot which was injured. Lack of footwork is exactly what has troubled De Kock in recent times and part of that might be down to the conditioning throughout rehab. Time out in the middle and in the nets is likely to be the only solution.

It’s a good thing, then, that De Kock has been dumped from the Test team for South Africa’s second Test against Bangladesh. Dane Vilas will assume the gloves in the interim while De Kock is packaged off for South Africa’s A-team tour in India in the hope that he gets back to his best ahead of a tough series away against India and at home against England. DM

Well for a start you are 100% wrong about the WC crap and the run out.....fact is, the throw from Rossouw was not on target and it skidded through on a wet surface.....de Kock had stuff all to do with our exit.

If we want to pick a run out opportunity missed in that game look no further than AB's cock up......far more glaring than de Kocks......FACT

As for de Kock and his batting......the kid is a class act who needs time at the wicket......that will come and he will be fine. Far too talented not to be back soon.

Technically far less flawed than Smith, but certainly not the perfect technique, but that can be said of many players.....Faf and Amla spring to mind.

A FACT is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of FACT is verifiability, that is whether it can be proven to correspond to experience. The FACT that your OPINION is in actual FACT the exact opposite of the verifiable experience (FACT), therefore proves that your OPINION is in FACT not FACT..

 ".....the kid is a class act who...." A "class act" who is being demoted.  How many more times are we going to hear this utter rubbish?  You really don't know do you? In my book a class act doesn't get demoted...that's exactly why he'd be a class act!

Sphlott....Sphlott  wipe the egg off your ignorant face. 

And just before you come abarking....here...a muzzle.

Denise I know you are too fucking stupid to comprehend the obvious......class is permanent, form temporary.......he is out of form and rightly should be demoted.......are you therefore concluding that because of this demotion, that he is no longer a class act and that he will never play for SA again?

Story goes that here in England, that if Clarke was not the Oz captain he to would have been dropped given his lack of form, same can be said of Bell who just managed to escape the chop.......do these two lack class because they are out of form......you idiot?  

The kid's bat is too far from his pads because he throws it at the ball outside the off stump, while not moving his feet. Thus he is massively vulnerable to the ball that nips back. He needs to be seeing the ball like a spanspek to succeed. That happened for a while.....not any more it seems.

He also missed the stumping to lose the WC. Most high school keepers would have gobbled that up....he panicked.

Oh what utter crap, you have obviously never played the game......for when you have a ball thrown at you that effectively arrives at you at yorker length, the only way to get your hands on it is to swoop at it and hope for the best......its no use just getting your body in the way to stop it as that is hardly going to help with trying to run someone out.

You are 100% inaccurate with what actually happened evidencing the fact that you cannot have played the game much or at all.

As for his technique, its has very little to do with his foot work and plenty to do with his tendency to play across the ball, dragging his shots towards leg, something Smith was very pronounced in doing.

His footwork issue as the article mentions is down to the injury he had, where footwork became secondary for it obviously used to hurt when planting his foot. He was rushed back too soon for the simple reason he was held in such high regard by the selectors.

de Kock will be back and he will make your name mud....that is a certainty

Hey D  U  T  C   H man......nice work on the google there.......you must be sooooo proud 

Nope the only credibility lost is yours as you fail to understand the art of collecting a ball in the fashion he tried to, exposing your lack of experience in that very situation.

In effect you are not best placed to comment on the missed run out opportunity for if you knew what you were talking about, you would sympathise with what he was faced with.

Get someone to throw a ball at you that effectively yorks you on the second bounce and tell me you don't understand exactly why he had a good chance of missing the ball.....added to that very scenario was the fact that the ball was thrown in on a wet surface.

Watching that incident I at no point could point fingers at de Kock having experienced that very same situation many times on a cricket field as do all that play the game.

Fact is AB's miss was far more of a cock up but its interesting that you keep ignoring this very fact......its always de Kock that is blamed which is utter rubbish.

My credibility is well intact as I have and still play the game and know exactly what de Kock was faced with......we was hindered by the stumps, the ball was thrown in inaccurately and yorked him on the entry, plus the surface was wet.....to blame de Kock for our exit based on that missed run out, while at the same time making no mention of AB's missed run out.....smacks of ignorance of the highest order.  

Oh wow D  U  T  C  H man you really are special......did you have that saved somewhere......struggling to occupy yourself in your retirement?

No-one will EVER make my name mud..... simply because I know best 

Wrong I had your taal rammed down my throat for 2 years in the army......what a bloody waste of time that was......I was a real boer by the time I left.

Had to have AFR as one of my law subjects, took it in my first year having come out the Army, given how fresh it was and creamed a distinction for it.  

Moz its evident you have played very little cricket in your time.....you are about as accurate as you were with blaming JJ for the Barrett miss.

Its best to not pass comment when you lack experience.....failing which you just look like a fool

Here you go Denise

........the definition of a class act is you running away from your oppressors......pure class

Word of mouth old man

As for staying to fight the good fight, who said I had a fight to fight?  

Geez Moz its so many years ago and was thrown about the rugby sites back in the days for all to see......its sticks and I don't give a toss about the sources etc.

Denise is a first class twat, who needs to keep running like a rabbit.

Back in March, during the World Cup, Quinton de Kock was, according to the national team’s coach Russell Domingo, in need of some love and care. Fast-forward five months and a big stick is being wielded in an attempt to beat De Kock back into form.

Dropped fr om the starting team for last week’s weather curtailed second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka, De Kock is also out of the limited overs teams for the T20 and One-Day Internationals against New Zealand this month. In his place is 36-year-old Morné van Wyk, a move Domingo admitted yesterday was a stop-gap. [This is, IMO, a BS move.]