IND vs SA | Twitter in awe as Jitesh channels inner Spiderman to deny De Kock deserving century

‌Quinton de Kock gave South Africa an excellent start in the second ODI in New Chandigarh after India put them in at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. The Proteas opener smashed four sixes and a four to power them to 53/1 at the end of the powerplay.

The wicketkeeper-batter continued to produce the big shots on a true cricket surface, completing his fifty in just 26 balls in the ninth over. He was smashing just about every bowler who came onto bowl, getting to 90 in 45 balls as the visitors were strongly placed at 156/2 with five overs to play.

Just as the southpaw was looking set for his second T20I century, Jitesh Sharma pulled off a special effort to end his stay in the middle. The batter was looking to tap a short of the length delivery outside off stump in the first ball of Varun Chakravarthy’s final over to the point region for a single. But he ended up underedging it towards the wicketkeeper’s direction and almost started running.

An alert Jitesh did well to first stop the bouncing ball with his left hand before collecting it with his other hand and whipping the bails off in a flash in one continuous motion. The batter had backed out far too much and failed desperately in his attempt to make his ground.

Twitter was in awe of Jitesh’s presence of mind and lightning speed as an unlucky De Kock walked off without getting to a deserved century.

Sharp one

Sharp work behind the stumps from Jitesh Sharma! 😎



Huge wicket for  🙌



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— BCCI (@BCCI) 

Agile

Jitesh Sharma was agile and aware enough to run Quinton de Kock out. 

— Sports Insights (@Sportsinsightts) 

Heartbreak

HEARTBREAK FOR QUINTON DE KOCK. 💔



De Kock got run out on 90 runs but nevertheless he played a brilliant Knock against India in 2nd T20I Match at Mullanpur. He smashed 90 runs fron 46 balls - What a Knock Quinton De Kock. 

— CRIC WEEK (@cricweek) 

Gone

QUINTON de KOCK 90(46) BALLS



RUN OUT (JITESH) 

— Sanjay Rathwa (@Rathwa0019) 

Superb

QUINTON DE KOCK RUN OUT ON 90 RUNS.



- Superb Run out by Rohit Sharma. 

— Dishant (ROHIT NATION) (@Dishant_45) 

Missed

Run out dismissal for Quinton de Kock!!



Missed a well deserved hundred by 10 runs!!    

— Khel Cricket (@Khelnowcricket) 

Seriously

Quinton de Kock getting run out is actually a curse that I gave him. Bitch you are going to cry in the 90s every fucking dayyyy 

— paty (@_midwicket) 

Gone

Quinton de Kock scored 90 runs in 46 balls and was run out by Jitesh Sharma.   

— 𝘼𝙠𝙖𝙨𝙝 (@iamAkashAU) 

How come?

How come De Kock is run out?? Why not stump out?

— ankita ✨️ (@theviraltroller) 

Oh QDK

Oh De kock, unlucky run out after a brilliant innings 

— Noko (@TruthOrPeace_)