{"id":72633,"date":"2025-08-17T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72633\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:19:08","slug":"new-record-dewald-brevis-surpasses-virat-kohli-becomes-the-first-ever-batter-to-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72633\/","title":{"rendered":"New Record! Dewald Brevis surpasses Virat Kohli, becomes the first-ever batter to &#8230; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123336408.jpg\" alt=\"New Record! Dewald Brevis surpasses Virat Kohli, becomes the first-ever batter to ...\" title=\"Dewald Brevis and Virat Kohli (Agency Photos) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Dewald Brevis and Virat Kohli (Agency Photos)  South African batter Dewald Brevis surpassed India&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> in the record for most T20I sixes against Australia in Australia, becoming the first ever batter to hit 14 sixes in T20I Down Under. Despite his impressive performance, South Africa couldn&#8217;t secure a victory in the series decider.Brevis scored a powerful 53 runs off 26 balls, which included one four and six sixes. His achievement of 14 sixes in just three matches overtook Kohli&#8217;s record of 12 sixes in 10 T20Is against Australia in their home conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Shubman Gill as India\u2019s all-format captain? Harbhajan Singh on life beyond Rohit Sharma &amp; Virat Kohli<\/p>\n<p>The match began with Lhuan-dre Pretorius scoring a quick 24 before Nathan Ellis dismissed him. Brevis, who had previously set a South African T20 record with 125 not out in the second match, then took to the crease.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@toisports\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Brevis&#8217;s aggressive innings included hitting a six onto the stadium roof. Glenn Maxwell initially dropped a difficult catch at long-on but later made amends with an impressive diving catch to dismiss Brevis at 53.The South African innings lost momentum after Brevis&#8217;s departure. Australia&#8217;s response started strongly with captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mitchell-marsh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Marsh<\/a> and Travis Head putting on a 66-run opening partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Was Dewald Brevis&#8217;s performance in the match impressive?<\/p>\n<p>South Africa fought back by quickly dismissing Head for 19 and Josh Inglis for a duck. Marsh reached 54 before young bowler Kwena Maphaka took his wicket, followed by Cameron Green&#8217;s dismissal for 9 runs.Australia experienced a collapse, losing 6 wickets for 56 runs. Tim David (17) and Aaron Hardie (1) were dismissed before Glenn Maxwell took control of the game, winning the game and securing the three-match T20I series 2-1.The Australian team wore black armbands to honor former captain and coach Bob Simpson, who died at age 89.The teams will next meet in a three-match ODI series starting Tuesday in Cairns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dewald Brevis and Virat Kohli (Agency Photos) South African batter Dewald Brevis surpassed India&#8217;s Virat Kohli in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[31380,36666,1721,37342,36920,8102,29235,37341,101,37340,56,54,55,15624],"class_list":["post-72633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-australia-vs-south-africa","tag-bob-simpson","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-records","tag-dewald-brevis","tag-mitchell-marsh","tag-odi-series","tag-south-african-cricket","tag-sports","tag-t20i-sixes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}