{"id":18817,"date":"2021-01-06T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18817"},"modified":"2021-01-06T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:57:32","slug":"de-kock-excited-for-pakistan-tour-but-fears-of-bio-secure-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18817","title":{"rendered":"De Kock excited for Pakistan tour but fears of bio-secure bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Quinton-de-Kock.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi:\u00a0South Africa&#8217;s cricket team captain Quinton de Kock is looking forward to touring Pakistan but is also wary of the hardships of one more bio-secure bubble.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Africa are scheduled to arrive in mid-January and will play two Tests and three T20Is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cThere are two sides to it.\u00a0I\u2019m excited to get over there and play cricket in what will be a new challenge,&#8221; De Kock said after his side defeated Sri Lanka in the second Test at Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/rabadas-return-put-ice-south-africa-look-ahead-pakistan-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rabada\u2019s return put on ice as South Africa look ahead to Pakistan tour<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;But the off-the-field stuff is another type of challenge. Bubble life is probably going to be the hardest challenge we will face out there,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Proteas were in a bio-secure bubble since\u00a0limited over series against England and again were again shifted\u00a0for the two Tests against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s very unsettling and a little nervy. It\u2019s an accumulation of a lot of little things you are not used to plus the uncertainty of being caught in a lockdown, where you are then stuck in a place,&#8221; he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Note, South Africa\u00a0last toured Pakistan in 2007 where they clinched\u00a0the two-match Test series 1-0 and the ODI series 3-2.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/babar-azam-upbeat-lead-first-time-home-test-against-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babar Azam upbeat to lead for first time in home Test against South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi:\u00a0South Africa&#8217;s cricket team captain Quinton de Kock is looking forward to touring Pakistan but is also wary of the hardships of one more bio-secure <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18817\" title=\"De Kock excited for Pakistan tour but fears of bio-secure bubble\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18819,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions\/18819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}