Quinton de Kock (born 17 December 1992) is a South African cricketer and former captain of the Proteas in all three formats.

He currently plays for South Africa in T20 International, Titans at the domestic level, and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.

An opening batsman and wicket-keeper, de Kock made his domestic debut for the Highveld Lions during the 2012/2013 season.

He quickly caught the national selectors' eye when he starred in a match-winning partnership with Neil McKenzie in the Champions League T20 against the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL)..He also finished fourth on the first-class rankings, despite playing only six of the 10 matches that summer.

[4] In December 2020, in the series against Sri Lanka, de Kock captained South Africa for the first time in Test cricket.

[6] In the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, he scored 95 off 131 balls in South Africa's first match against Bangladesh, which the team won by 133 runs.

[8] In the quarter-final match against England, de Kock scored only 7 runs, but performed well as wicket-keeper, recording five dismissals (two stumpings and three catches).

[11] In the 2013 domestic twenty20 tournament in South Africa, De Kock played several good knocks to take his team Highveld Lions to the final where they won, eventually becoming the season dalla champions.

[12][13] In 2013 de Kock was bought by Indian Premier League franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad in the player auction,[14] but had a disappointing tournament featuring three times and scoring only six runs.

[26] It was reported that he was training and grooming under veteran retired South African wicket-keeper batsman Mark Boucher ahead of the ODI series against New Zealand.

[28] In November 2013, De Kock was selected in the first XI of South Africa against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, in place of Colin Ingram.

He also became the highest run-getter ever in a three-match bilateral ODI series, breaking the previous record of Martin Guptill.

In the 3-match tour to Zimbabwe in August, 2014, De Kock eventually became the joint quickest batsman to reach 1000 runs in ODI cricket sharing the record with Viv Richards, Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen.

He endured a poor outing at his debut World Cup campaign aggregating only 145 runs in 8 matches at dismal average of 20.7 and coped up with criticism for his horrible batting display.

[41][42] The International Cricket Council (ICC) named de Kock as the key player of South Africa's squad for the tournament.

[44] In the same match he also became only the second wicket keeper opening batsman after Adam Gilchrist while captaining the side to score a century in ODIs.

Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram became the first trio of batters to score centuries for a team in a World Cup match.

[54] He scored his second consecutive World Cup century in South Africa's second group stage fixture against Australia and his knock at relatively slow outfield in Lucknow propelled South Africa to 311/7 runs on the board before restricting Australia to 177 all out to seal the deal and de Kock received the Player of the Match Award for his splendid knock of 109 which came off just 106 deliveries.

[58][59] He made his 150th ODI appearance during South Africa's group stage match against Bangladesh at Mumbai and he smashed his career best knock of 174 which came off just 130 deliveries and it was also de Kock's third century at the 2023 World Cup in five innings.

[66][67] He also became the first South African batsman to score three centuries in a single edition of the World Cup when he reached to the milestone against Bangladesh.

[72][73] de Kock also became the first South African batter to score 500 runs or more in a single edition of the World Cup and he also surpassed Jacques Kallis's record of 485 runs (2007) to become the most prolific runscorer for South Africa in a single edition of the World Cup.

He became only the third wicket-keeper to effect in 6 dismissals in a single World Cup match after Adam Gilchrist and Sarfaraz Ahmed.

On 27 January 2019 during the fourth test match against England, he broke the record for the fastest wicketkeeper to effect 200 dismissals (47).

[44] On 12 June 2021, Quinton de Kock joined Mark Boucher in 3,000 runs in Test cricket as a wicketkeeper for South Africa club during his career-best 141 not-out against West Indies.

In September 2021, De Kock was named in South Africa's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

[88] In October 2021, during the Men's T20 World Cup, de Kock made himself unavailable for South Africa's match against West Indies after refusing to take the knee.

After a slow start to the tournament, his blistering knock of 74 from just 40 deliveries[95] against the United States in the Super 8 stage propelled South Africa to 194/4 in 20 overs.