Johannesburg: After South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma defended teammate Quinton de Kock for his role in the controversial run out of Pakistan Fakhar Zaman in the second ODI, spinner Tabraiz Shamsi has also come forward to support De Kock.
Fakhar’s splendid innings ended on 193 on the first ball of the final over when a direct hit from Aiden Markram from long-off caught him short of his crease at the striker’s end.
However, it was because of De Kock who was blamed for ‘fake fielding’ as he gestured if the throw was going to the non-striker’s end but it came at the striker’s end.
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The 31-year-old Shamsi revealed that De Kock was asking to back up the non-striker end. The left-arm Chinaman feels that De Kock should not be held accountable if the batsman turned around to see instead of completing the run safely. He urged critics to stop hate and leave QDK alone.
Just 2 clarify
QDK was NOT speaking 2 or pointing at the batsman,he was asking a fielder to back up at the non strikers end
Not Quinnys fault the batman turned around 2 see instead of completing the run safely which he should have done
Stop the hate n Leave QDK alone#Peace✌
— Tabraiz Shamsi (@shamsi90) April 5, 2021
Shamsi added that not to take the attention away from great innings by Fakhar Zaman while pointing that he should have completed his run rather than looking backwards.
So it's not funny that the batsman stopped running instead of completing the run?
Lets not take the attention away from a great innings that he played and give him credit for that
The batman's job in that instance was to complete the run that all…
As simple as that 🙂
— Tabraiz Shamsi (@shamsi90) April 5, 2021
Note, South Africa beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the second ODI to level three-match series 1-1. The final match will be played on April 7 at SuperSport Park, Centurion.
