Shukri Conrad did, and here we are. Pretorius had played two Tests and 10 T20Is when De Kock returned in that Windhoek game. When Pretorius made his ODI debut in Faisalabad on Tuesday, De Kock handed him his cap. It was a poetic touch, because the pair knew each other well by then. De Kock, who is more than 13 years Pretorius’ senior, is the younger man’s cricket hero. Photographs of Pretorius at various stages of his boyhood and De Kock – and his younger brother Vihan, who played for South Africa’s under-19 team this year – abound online.
