Josh Hazlewood makes Quinton de Kock his bunny; check out his exceptional record

Star RCB pacer Josh Hazlewood dismissed the veteran KKR batter Quinton de Kock in the ongoing first game of the Indian Premier League 2025. Hazlewood dismissed De Kock at the individual score of just 4 runs off balls, with only one four. With this dismissal, Hazlewood has also increased his dominance over De Kock in the T20 format across different leagues or tournaments.

It can also be said that De Kock has also become Hazlewood’s bunny in the T20 format. The star Aussie pacer and the former Proteas wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock have faced off each other across the various T20 franchise leagues.

With that said, here we’ll have a look at the head-to-head records in the player battle between Josh Hazlewood and Quinton de Kock in the T20 formats, including the Indian Premier League as well.

Josh Hazlewood’s dominance over Quinton de Kock

Speaking of the head-to-head stats between De Kock and Hazlewood, the former has scored 42 runs off 34 balls against the Aussie star, including four dismissals. The former Proteas wicketkeeper-batter has a poor batting average of just 10.50, including the ‘below-average’ batting strike rate of 123.52.

The above-mentioned stats reflect the dominance of Josh Hazlewood over Quinton de Kock in the T20 format. The Aussie pacer has completely outplayed the Southpaw whenever they faced off each other in the shortest format of the game.

RCB kicks off with a blistering approach in run chase

Speaking of the current action of the game between KKR and RCB at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata in the IPL 2025 tournament opener, the defending champions KKR scored 174 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Star opener Sunil Narine scored 44 runs off just 26 balls, with five fours and three sixes followed by skipper Ajinkya Rahane’s blistering 56 runs off just 31 balls, with six fours and four sixes.

Later in the lower middle-order, young batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi also scored a crucial 30 runs off 22 balls, with two fours and a six. 
Star all-rounder Krunal Pandya scalped 3 wickets at just 29 runs in his 4 overs, alongside 2 wickets bagged by Josh Hazlewood at just 22 runs in his four-over spell. Besides these two, Yash Dayal, Rasikh Salam, and Suyash Sharma also claimed a wicket each.

While chasing the target, RCB has scored 58 runs for no loss in just 4 overs, having opener Phil Salt and former skipper Virat Kohli there in the middle. Salt and Kohli have scored 44 runs and 12 runs, respectively.