{"id":85352,"date":"2025-08-13T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=85352"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:01:59","slug":"dewald-brevis-sets-new-t20i-record-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/dewald-brevis-sets-new-t20i-record-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dewald Brevis sets new T20I record for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s young batting sensation Dewald Brevis etched his name into the record books with a blistering century in the second T20 International against Australia on Tuesday, leading his side to a commanding 53-run victory.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first after being invited by the hosts, South Africa posted 218 for 7 in the allotted 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Dewald Brevis played a scintillating unbeaten knock of 125 runs off just 56 balls, reaching his century in only 41 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>His innings not only powered South Africa to a formidable total but also set multiple milestones.<\/p>\n<p>Dewald Brevis now holds the record for the highest individual score in T20 Internationals for South Africa, surpassing Faf du Plessis\u2019 119 against the West Indies in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He also became the youngest South African to score a T20I century, breaking Richard Levi\u2019s record from 2012 when Levi achieved the feat at age 24 against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Dewald Brevis became the first player in history to score a T20I century against Australia on their home soil.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing 219, Australia\u2019s innings folded at 165, handing South Africa a comfortable 53-run win and leveling the three-match series 1-1. The series decider will be played on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s young batting sensation Dewald Brevis etched his name into the record books with a blistering century in the second T20 International against Australia on Tuesday, leading his side to a commanding 53-run victory. Batting first after being invited by the hosts, South Africa posted 218 for 7 in the allotted 20 overs. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85354,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85352\/revisions\/85354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}