South African home sides Titans, Knights set new T20 world file

A world file 501 runs have been scored in a South Africa home T20 match between Titans and Knights, which additionally noticed a slew of milestones being reached.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 1, 2022 23:09 IST

T20 world file 501 runs scored in South African home match. Twitter/Domestic CSA)

By India Today Web Desk: The 500-run mark in a T20 sport was lastly damaged throughout a Cricket South Africa (CSA) T20 Challenge match in Potchefstroom. In their allotted 20 overs, the Titans posted 271 for 3 with opener Dewald Brevis scoring 162 off 57 balls with 13 fours and as many sixes within the CSA T20 Challenge match on Monday.

Chasing the large goal, the Knights made 230 for 9 in 20 overs, dropping by 41 runs. The earlier highest mixture in a T20 match was 497 within the Super Smash between Central Districts and Otago in 2016-17. Both groups hit 36 sixes in Potchefstroom, which is the third most in a T20 match.

The Titans scored 271 runs, the fourth most in males’s T20s and essentially the most in South Africa. Brevis’ 162 is the third-highest particular person rating in males’s T20, trailing solely Chris Gayle’s 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore in opposition to Pune Warriors within the 2013 IPL and Aaron Finch’s 172 in opposition to Zimbabwe in 2018.

It is the best rating by a South African batter in males’s T20 cricket. Brevis wanted simply 52 balls to succeed in 150, the quickest by any batter in T20 cricket. The earlier quickest was 53 deliveries by Gayle throughout his 175.

Brevis turned the youngest South African to attain a century in males’s T20 cricket at 19 years and 185 days. He is the sixth-youngest batter on the planet to attain a century in males’s T20. It is the South African batter’s highest rating in males’s T20 cricket. Brevis wanted solely 52 balls to succeed in 150, the quickest of any T20 batter. Gayle set the earlier file with 53 deliveries throughout his 175.

At 19 years and 185 days, Brevis turned the youngest South African to attain a century in males’s T20 cricket. He is the world’s sixth-youngest T20 batter to attain a century. His strike price of 284.21 throughout his century is the fifth-highest in males’s T20 cricket and the best for any South African T20 hundred.

He hit his century in 35 balls, the joint fifth-fastest in T20 cricket and the joint second-fastest by a South African.

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Nov 1, 2022