Quinton de Kock has retired from test cricket

[flibbertyjibber]

After the taking the knee fiasco I am not at all surprised by this.

 

[Gnske]

He looked pretty disinterested in that last innings.

His brain must be pretty fried if he wants to spend even more time around a screaming toddler. Doesn't he know what wives are for?

 

[ImpatientLime]

fair to say for a man of his talent that his test career has been a bit of a damp squib?

 

[Gnske]

Very damp. But hey, SA isn't a well paying IPL franchise.

How many tests had Gilly played by 29? 10 or 12?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

It is funny that he played with Devon Conway when growing up who is just starting his test career while QDK has finished.

 

[Tom Flint]

Take him out of the white ball teams. Piss taker

 

[TheJediBrah]

After the taking the knee fiasco I am not at all surprised by this.

forgot about that, definitely could have been a factor too

 

[Woodster]

It’s always disappointing when a fairly big Test name walks away from the format, albeit all for understandable reasons, family, covid bubbles presumably, etc. To try and preserve the importance of Test cricket, if anyone still sees it as that, then more surely has to be done to keep these guys from walking away from red ball cricket.

I may be one of a dying breed, but while it will still be nice to have the opportunity of seeing him lace those shots through the offside to the boundary in white ball cricket, it won’t be anywhere near as significant as the roles he could’ve still played in Test cricket.

However, 3300 Test runs at just under 39 is still a very decent record for a keeper/bat that doesn’t play for a nation with nice boring flat batting decks.

 

[TheJediBrah]

It’s always disappointing when a fairly big Test name walks away from the format, albeit all for understandable reasons, family, covid bubbles presumably, etc. To try and preserve the importance of Test cricket, if anyone still sees it as that, then more surely has to be done to keep these guys from walking away from red ball cricket.

I may be one of a dying breed, but while it will still be nice to have the opportunity of seeing him lace those shots through the offside to the boundary in white ball cricket, it won’t be anywhere near as significant as the roles he could’ve still played in Test cricket.

However, 3300 Test runs at just under 39 is still a very decent record for a keeper/bat that doesn’t play for a nation with nice boring flat batting decks.

Averages 6 more runs at home than away though . . . can't have been that bad

 

[Woodster]

Averages 6 more runs at home than away though . . . can't have been that bad

That’s my point, a decent record for someone that plays on the spicy decks in SA!

 

[TheJediBrah]

That’s my point, a decent record for someone that plays on the spicy decks in SA!

I mean the decks can't have been that spicy if he averages more at home than he does away

 

[Burgey]

Oh well.

Warner was right about him, as he was Root.

 

[ImpatientLime]

warner to this very day is still asking the lads to hold him back.

 

[halba]

well above average player in a -*-- team

 

[Daemon]

Strange and sad. I would’ve thought a break would be a better option.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Didn't want to be part of the first South African team to lose a test series to NZ

 

[Woodster]

I mean the decks can't have been that spicy if he averages more at home than he does away

A lot of the decks in SA have a bit of something in it, they’re not like playing on absolutely run fests in the sub-continent for example.

 

[TheJediBrah]

A lot of the decks in SA have a bit of something in it, they’re not like playing on absolutely run fests in the sub-continent for example.

I don't think you get what I'm saying but generally I agree

 

[ankitj]

Are SA cricketers just pissed with South African board or something? So many retirements, many seemingly premature

 

[Spark]

A lot of the decks in SA have a bit of something in it, they’re not like playing on absolutely run fests in the sub-continent for example.

I don't know how on earth you can look at Indian and SL pitches in the last three or four years or so and think "ah yes, runfests"