Top 5 current wicket-keeper batsmen in Test cricket

#4 Quinton de Kock (South Africa)

Quinton de Kock has translated his limited-overs success into some solid Test match batting

Since the unfortunate, injury-forced retirement of Mark Boucher, South Africa’s most successful wicketkeeper, the side has struggled to find a suitable replacement for the right-handed batsman, someone who could be clinical behind the stumps as well as potent enough with the bat. Several cricketers, including South Africa's No. 1 batsman across formats, AB de Villiers, were trusted with the responsibility, but none of them could excel in one area without compromising on the other.

However, the ascent of 2013 saw a young left-handed batsman emerge, who immediately made a name for himself through a hat-trick of ODI centuries (135, 106, 101) against India at home. Quinton de Kock’s raw talent, mixed with his impeccable skills with the bat, all at the ripe young age of 23 made him one of the prodigies of South Africa cricket.

Over the course of the next three years, the left-handed top-order batsman scored runs all over the world in limited-overs cricket, including a century each in the UAE, Sri Lanka and Australia, and two in India, and deservedly, received his Test call-up. His first ten Test innings had two half-centuries and two 30s to his name, but it was during South Africa's last Test series – against England in 2015-16 – that de Kock established himself as a mainstay in the setup through a belligerent 129* in Centurion.

Overall, the southpaw has 440 runs from 13 Test innings, having played 9 Tests, with 1 century and 2 fifties, and he has scored those runs at a healthy average of 44.00.