Big-hitting South African batter Lhuan-dre Pretorius set a new mark for the highest T20 score with an unbeaten 188<\/p>\n
Proteas batter Lhuan-dre Pretorius has hammered the highest T20 innings ever, blasting a record 188 not out for his South African domestic team in a match in Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n
Pretorius recorded his landmark knock off just 79 \u200cballs for the Titans against \u200cthe Knights in a CSA \u200cT20 Challenge fixture on Friday, launching 13 \u200csixes \u2060and 15 fours in an incredible knock.<\/p>\n
Highest individual score (men’s T20s)<\/p>\n
Batter
\nTeam
\nScore
\nOpponent
\nVenue
\nYear<\/p>\n
Lhuan-dre Pretorius
\nTitans
\n188no (79 balls)
\nKnights
\nBloemfontein
\n2026<\/p>\n
Chris Gayle
\nRCB
\n175no (66)
\nPune
\nBengaluru
\n2013<\/p>\n
Aaron Finch
\nAustralia
\n172 (76)
\nZimbabwe
\nHarare
\n2018<\/p>\n
Hamza Khan
\nRwanda
\n164no (65)
\nIvory Coast
\nGaborone
\n2026<\/p>\n
Karanbir Singh
\nAustria
\n164 (57)
\nHungary
\nSzodliget
\n2026<\/p>\n
He \u200bpassed the previous top mark of 175no by former West Indies international Chris Gayle for Royal \u2060Challengers Bangalore \u200cagainst the \u200bPune Warriors in the Indian Premier \u200bLeague in \u200c2013.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old Pretorius, who played in the T20 series in Australia last year, was well on course \u200bfor the first ever double ton in the format but ran out of overs as the Titans \u200bfinished \u200btheir innings \u200bon 3-267.<\/p>\n
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The \u200cleft-hander, who’s been in form of late but has also suffered injury problems, hadn’t played a match since he scored his maiden T20I hundred, a 53-ball \u200b101 for South Africa in \u200ba T20 \u2060international against Namibia last month.<\/p>\n
He reached his first fifty in 24 balls, taking just 16 more balls to get to his century before moving on to 150 off 58 deliveries.<\/p>\n
Pretorius also tied with the Australian duo of Aaron Finch and Marcus Stoinis for the longest innings ever played in men’s T20s in terms of balls faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big-hitting South African batter Lhuan-dre Pretorius set a new mark for the highest T20 score with an unbeaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-914037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}