It was a day in which mini milestones drifted tantalisingly close‚ only to avoid capture. Not that Quinton de Kock or Hashim Amla would necessarily have been aware of what was palpably within reach. As a dashing bottom middle order batsman it is often said of De Kock he has been bestowed powers to take matches away from the opposition. If that makes him sound like a one-man International Cricket Council Future Tours Programme committee‚ you would be relieved to hear he is a fastidious "one game at a time" kind of fella. Almost to a fault. On Sunday morning when De Kock resumed his innings‚ Pakistan were already in danger of being removed from the contest‚ but at least they had hope. For the next three hours and 10 minutes De Kock did not so much take the match away from Pakistan‚ as take it to a distant‚ far away land‚ a place not even their president could help them locate‚ let alone reach. De Kock compiled 129 and helped set the visitors a daunting victory target of 381. Islamabad...
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