South Africa have pulled off the very best profitable run chase in Twenty20 worldwide cricket to beat the West Indies by six wickets at Centurion on a day of blistering assault on the ball in addition to the file books.
Opener Quinton de Kock hit a primary T20 century as South Africa scored 4-259 after being set an imposing goal of 13 runs per over to win Sunday’s match.
Johnson Charles had led the West Indies to 5-258, a brand new file T20 complete on the Pretoria Test venue, after that they had been put in to bat.
The 34-year-old from St Lucia set a West Indies file for the quickest century, achieved off 39 balls, eight fewer than Chris Gayle’s earlier greatest mark.
Charles scored 118 off 46 balls earlier than being bowled by Marco Jansen, South Africa’s greatest bowler with 3-52.
Charles hit 11 sixes — half of the West Indies complete for the innings — which equalled the file 22 in an innings set by Afghanistan towards Ireland three years in the past.
Charles was ably supported by Kyle Mayers (51) in a 135-run second-wicket partnership adopted by an unbeaten 41 from Romario Shepherd.
South Africa started at a blistering tempo in reply and by scoring 150 with out loss off the primary 10 overs set one other T20 file.
De Kock took 43 balls to succeed in his century however departed straight after to finish a 152-run opening partnership with Reeza Hendricks, who made 68 off 28 balls.
“I said to Reeza afterwards we did something special out there. I’ve been looking for a T20 century for a while and to do it at my home ground was something special,” stated de Kock.
The pair succeeded in lowering the required run price, permitting captain Aiden Markram (38 not out) to steer his facet residence to a exceptional win with seven balls remaining.
“It was a pretty crazy game. When we came out to bowl we thought we had done enough. They applied the pressure from ball one and we didn’t respond,” West Indies captain Rovman Powell stated.
The batter-friendly pitch delivered a complete of 35 sixes and 46 fours in a run feast for an enthusiastic crowd, producing 517 runs for the very best mixture in a T20 worldwide.
South Africa tied the three-match T20 collection with the ultimate sport to be performed on the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
West Indies had gained the primary match by three wickets at Centurion on Saturday.
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