New Delhi: The first match of the three-Test series between India and South Africa is being played in Visakhapatnam. India has scored a huge score in the first innings whose host team stumbled to chase. In this difficult time, South African cricket team's wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock played a very important inning for his team. Not only did he score a century, but also partnered with Dean Elgar to get his team out of trouble. This century of De Cock was quite special in many ways.

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Quinton de Kock scored a Test century for the first time on Indian soil. He completed his century with the help of 15 fours and two sixes off 149 balls. De Kock, along with Dean Elgar, added 164 runs for the sixth wicket to take his team out of trouble. This was De Kock's fifth century in Test career, while his first century on Indian soil. He scored 111 off 163 balls.

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In his entire innings, he hit 16 fours and two sixes. De Cock became South Africa's first wicketkeeper-batsman to score a century in Test cricket in India. Nobody had done such a great feat before them. This was his third century (in all three starts) in India. As an outside wicket-keeper-batsman on Indian soil, Adam Gilchrist, Andy Flower and Kumar Sangakkara are among the players who have scored three centuries in all of cricket.

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