{"id":790238,"date":"2026-10-03T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790238\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:12:08","slug":"lhuan-dre-pretorius-breaks-chris-gayles-record-for-highest-t20-score-with-unbeaten-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790238\/","title":{"rendered":"Lhuan-dre Pretorius breaks Chris Gayle&#8217;s record for highest T20 score with unbeaten 188"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CSA T20 Challenge, Bloemfontein<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Titans 267-3 (20 overs): Pretorius 188* (79); Boast 1-46<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knights 143 (17.2 overs): Cloete 39 (25); Ferreira 3-16<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Titans won by 124 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-244299#TIT\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lhuan-dre Pretorius has broken Chris Gayle&#8217;s record for the highest score in a men&#8217;s T20 match with an unbeaten 188 in a domestic fixture in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old South African&#8217;s knock off 79 deliveries, including 13 sixes and 15 fours, helped Titans post 267-3 against Knights in the CSA T20 Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It eclipsed the 175 made by Gayle for Royal Challengers Bangalore (now Bengaluru) against Pune Warriors in the 2013 Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pretorius, who has played 17 T20s, three one-dayers and two Tests for South Africa, finished with a strike rate of 237.97.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his half-century off 24 balls but only required 16 more balls to get to three figures and then got to 150 off just 58 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Titans then bowled out Knights for 143 to wrap up an emphatic 124-run victory at the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSA T20 Challenge, Bloemfontein Titans 267-3 (20 overs): Pretorius 188* (79); Boast 1-46 Knights 143 (17.2 overs): Cloete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790238","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=790238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}