{"id":9016,"date":"2025-08-12T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=627743"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:08:38","slug":"highest-individual-scores-in-t20is-sa-brevis-tops-record-books-with-unbeaten-125-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/highest-individual-scores-in-t20is-sa-brevis-tops-record-books-with-unbeaten-125-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest individual scores in T20Is (SA): Brevis tops record books with unbeaten 125 against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"208\" data-end=\"661\">Dewald Brevis etched his name in South African cricket history with a blistering unbeaten 125 against Australia in Darwin, steering his side to a commanding 218\/7 in the first innings. His knock is now the <strong data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"468\">highest individual score in T20Is for South Africa<\/strong>, overtaking Faf du Plessis\u2019 119 against West Indies in 2015, and also sets the <strong data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"603\">highest individual score in T20Is against Australia<\/strong>, surpassing Ruturaj Gaikwad\u2019s 123* in Guwahati in 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"663\" data-end=\"899\">The innings also put Brevis at the top of the list for <strong data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"769\">highest individual scores in T20Is in Australia<\/strong>, ahead of Shane Watson\u2019s 124* against India in Sydney in 2016 and Glenn Maxwell\u2019s 120* against West Indies in Adelaide in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"1142\">This new milestone reshapes South Africa\u2019s T20I batting honours list, placing Brevis above Richard Levi\u2019s 117* versus New Zealand in 2012, Reeza Hendricks\u2019 117 against Pakistan in 2024, and Morne van Wyk\u2019s 114* against West Indies in 2015.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1144\" data-end=\"1513\">Brevis\u2019 innings was a masterclass in aggressive strokeplay, mixing clean hitting with calculated shot selection to dismantle the Australian bowling attack. His ability to find the gaps and clear the ropes at will provided the Proteas with a formidable total, ensuring his effort will be remembered among the greatest in both South African and Australian T20I history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dewald Brevis etched his name in South African cricket history with a blistering unbeaten 125 against Australia in Darwin, steering\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":31788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}