South Africa men’s cricket coach Mark Boucher said on Wednesday that Quinton de Kock will be released from Test captaincy after the Pakistan tour but there is still time to make that call following Australia’s decision to postpone their tour.
After the Pakistan series, South Africa doesn’t have any Test cricket lined up for the next nine months as Australia on Tuesday decided to postpone their tour citing “unacceptable health and safety risk” in that country because of a fresh coronavirus outbreak.
“When we get back after this tour we’ve got a bit of time before our next Test series so we can sit down and make a good, solid call on who can take over from him and release him from that burden and try and get the best out of him,” Boucher said on the eve of the final Test.
De Kock, who was handed the Test captaincy on a temporary basis for the 2020-21 summer, hasn’t been in good form, scoring just 15 and 2 in the two innings as they suffered a seven-wicket…