Maharaj replaces de Kock as Durban’s Super Giants captain

Jul 15, 2023 at 3:24 AM
Maharaj replaces de Kock as Durban’s Super Giants captain
Quinton de Kock has been eliminated as captain at SA20 aspect Durban’s Super Giants and changed by Keshav Maharaj for the 2024 version of the match.

“I am super happy, humbled and privileged to accept the opportunity as the captain of the DSG franchise in the next SA20 league,” Maharaj stated in a video launched by the franchise on Friday. “I am super excited, being a Durban boy – been here 18 years of my life, and it’s a place that I call home for me. So I am hoping I can bring some performances from domestic cricket into the SA20, from a leadership perspective and from a player’s perspective.”

Former South Africa captain de Kock, part of the squad at each the Super Giants franchises – Lucknow within the IPL and Durban within the SA20 – led the workforce within the inaugural season of the six-team South African league, the place they completed one off the underside after profitable 4 of their ten video games (the identical as third- and fourth-placed Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Paarl Royals, respectively, however behind them on internet run-rate). De Kock was one of many higher performers with the bat for the workforce, scoring 271 runs at a strike fee of 151.39 in 9 innings.

“I’d like to thank Quinny for all the hard work that he has done on and off the field,” Maharaj stated. “However, his job is not over. He is still a leader within the team and his experience and knowledge of the game is invaluable to this unit. And it’s going to be a large and integral part to play for us in terms of bringing the trophy to Durban this year.”

De Kock additionally mostly warmed the bench on the IPL this yr, with Lucknow preferring Kyle Mayers to him. De Kock reached the IPL late after being on nationwide responsibility, and Mayers, his substitute on the prime of the order, scored 73 in 38 balls and 53 in 22 balls within the two video games the workforce performed earlier than de Kock’s arrival. De Kock did slam a 41-ball 70 in a single recreation – against Gujarat Titans – when he opened with Mayers after an harm had dominated KL Rahul, the common captain and opener, out of the competitors.
Maharaj, who hasn’t performed competitively since early March this yr after rupturing an Achilles tendon through the Johannesburg Test in opposition to West Indies, did not have a very spectacular SA20 2023, bowling in eight innings (23 overs) and selecting up 4 wickets at an economic system of seven.86.

He has, nonetheless, been checked out as a pacesetter in South African cricket, and has led the nationwide aspect in seven ODIs and 5 T20Is between 2021 and 2022.