The 10th most capped South African in ODIs, who had dream figures in his retirement World Cup, realises he loves to bat and play more.

India is heading into the Raipur ODI scheduled on Wednesday with a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. After a duck in the first ODI at Ranchi, QDK will be aiming to bounce back against an opponent he has an extremely fine record with historically.

Quinton de Kock reversed his white-ball retirement earlier this year, and scored 239 runs at 119.5 during three ODIs in Pakistan

Quinton de Kock had to walk away from his childhood dream of becoming an international cricketer to realise he hadn't quite fulfilled as much of it as he wanted. And he did it quietly. After South Africa lost last year's T20 World Cup final in heart-wrenching fashion by seven runs to India, de Kock, in his words, "disappeared".

Quinton de Kock attempted to take control but edged a fullish delivery outside off directly to wicketkeeper KL Rahul.

South Africa expect to be back at full strength - or something very close to it - when they begin a four-Test series against Australia next week. Four players from the team that faced India in the Proteas' last Test - Faf du Plessis, AB de Villiers, Vernon ...

Captain KL Rahul brings up back-to-back half-centuries with a boundary. His fifty comes off just 54 balls. Opportunity gone for the Proteas as India captain KL Rahul is dropped on 44 by Matthew Breetzke off Marco Jansen. The Proteas have clawed back nicely but India are still projected to make 330-odd.