‘Class act Quinny’ stars for Brave
A magnificent innings from Quinton de Kock helped Southern Brave to victory over Northern Superchargers in a low-scoring but absorbing Hundred clash at the Ageas Bowl on Saturday.
The Brave’s five-wicket wicket win, their third success of the season, took them to second place and was secured with five balls to spare with South African batsman de Kock unbeaten on 72 alongside Chris Jordan who was 10 not out and hit the winning boundary.
After restricting the
Superchargers to an underpar 128-6, on a sluggish surface in damp and cold conditions the Brave looked to be cruising to victory at 101-2.
However, spinners Adil Rashid and Adam Lyth grabbed four wickets to almost wrestle the initiative back towards the visitors.
Brave bowler Danny
Briggs said: ‘It was a good win, we needed it. It's the back end of the comp now and it's going to get pretty big so it was important to get a win. Although it got a little bit tight there towards the end, it was nice to get on the right side of that.
‘Our bowling unit has done well for the last two games and we are doing fairly well to keep scores down. We had to on that wicket as it deteriorated quite quickly.
‘Quinny (de Kock) is a class act, we have seen him do that kind of thing before in glimpses and it was nice that at the end there when the wicket got difficult he showed his class and got us over the line.’
Brave return to Ageas
Bowl action on Wednesday against the Welsh Fire.