South African wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock became the fifth player from his team to reach the landmark of 7,000 ODI runs on Saturday.

The batting stalwart, who has made a comeback to ODIs in this series after reversing his retirement from the format, scored his third back-to-back fifty-plus score of this series against Pakistan, hitting 53 in 70 balls, with six fours and a six.

In the previous two matches, he had managed 63 on his ODI return and 123* in the second ODI.

Now in 158 matches and innings, de Kock has scored 7,009 runs at an average of 46.72, with a strike rate of 96.47, including 22 centuries and 32 fifties and a best score of 178. Having overtaken former South African captain Graeme Smith (6,989 runs in 196 ODIs with 10 centuries), he is the fifth-highest run-getter

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