A world document 501 runs had been scored in a South Africa home T20 match between Titans and Knights right here, which additionally noticed a slew of milestones being reached. Invited to bat, the Titans posted 271 for 3 of their allotted 20 overs with opener Dewald Brevis scoring 162 off 57 balls with the assistance of 13 fours and as many sixes within the CSA T20 Challenge match on Monday. Chasing the mammoth goal, the Knights made 230 for 9 in 20 overs, dropping the match by 41 runs.

The earlier highest mixture in a T20 match was 497 by Central Districts and Otago within the Super Smash in 2016-17. The 36 sixes by each groups in Potchefstroom are additionally the third most in a T20 match.

The 271 runs scored by Titans is the fourth highest by any staff in males’s T20s and most in South Africa.

Brevis’ 162 is the third highest particular person rating in males’s T20 after Chris Gayle‘s 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore towards Pune Warriors within the IPL in 2013 and Aaron Finch‘s 172 towards Zimbabwe in 2018.

It is the very 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 grew to become 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.

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His strike fee of 284.21 throughout his knock is the fifth-highest throughout a century in males’s T20 cricket and the very best for any T20 hundred in South Africa.

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