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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Depending on who, or what you\u2019re reading, Quinton de Kock is either a cheat, a cheeky \u201cso-and-so\u201d, or the ultimate purveyor of cricketing \u201cs*&^housery\u201d\u2019 in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

By now the clip of De Kock waving his hand towards the bowler\u2019s end as the heroic Fakhar Zaman was making his way back to the striker\u2019s end on Sunday, has been viewed a million times.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Temba Bavuma and Babar Azam hail Fakhar Zaman after dramatic ODI at the Wanderers<\/p>\n

Fakhar, exhausted after batting from ball one until ball 295 and scoring 193 runs in Pakistan\u2019s run chase at the Wanderers, had looked back to see if his mate Haris Rauf would make it back to his crease only to see the stumps flashing at the striker\u2019s end as Aiden Markram\u2019s remarkable throw from the wide long off boundary hit them directly.<\/p>\n

Absolutely brilliant from #QuintonDeKock . Brilliant. @OfficialCSA #SAvPAK pic.twitter.com\/6LIHaM9ZzV<\/p>\n

On the field, De Kock, Lungi Ngidi, Markram and Kagiso Rabada burst out laughing, as did Vernon Philander on commentary for SuperSport. \u201cYou can\u2019t do that can you?\u201d Philander exclaimed in between chuckles.<\/p>\n

Turns out, you can\u2019t. By Monday morning, Law 41.5.1, was trending on Google and for good reason. It reads that a fielder can\u2019t deliberately distract a batsmen leading to his dismissal, describing such a move as \u201cunfair\u201d with the fielding side liable to a penalty of five runs.<\/p>\n

Just 2 clarifyQDK was NOT speaking 2 or pointing at the batsman,he was asking a fielder to back up at the non strikers endNot Quinnys fault the batman turned around 2 see instead of completing the run safely which he should have doneStop the hate n Leave QDK alone#Peace\u270c<\/p>\n

Neither the on-field umpires nor match referee Andy Pycroft made any mention that what De Kock did was unfair, and according to his teammate Tabraiz Shamsi, De Kock wasn\u2019t even making a gesture to the batsman.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust (to) clarify,\u201d Shamsi tweeted on Monday. \u201cQDK was NOT speaking (to) or pointing at the batsman, he was asking a fielder to back up at the non striker\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot Quinnys fault the batman turned around (to) see instead of completing the run safely which he should have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fakhar, too, apportioned no blame to De Kock, when speaking to the media on Sunday evening. “The fault was mine as I was too busy looking out for Haris (Rauf) as I felt he’d started off a little late from his crease, so I thought he was in trouble,\u201d said Fakhar. \u201cThe rest is up to the match referee, I don’t think it’s Quinton’s fault”<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest it was my own fault,\u201d he added later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. Depending on who, or what you\u2019re reading, Quinton de Kock is either a cheat, a cheeky \u201cso-and-so\u201d, or the ultimate purveyor of cricketing \u201cs*&^housery\u201d\u2019 in the last 12 months. By now the clip of De Kock waving his hand towards the bowler\u2019s end as the heroic Fakhar Zaman was making his way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"\nDid he or didn\u2019t he? 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