West Indies at South Africa

Last wkt: Brandon King c R Hendricks b Parnell 1(2) - 2/1 in 0.3 ov. Recent balls: 1 1 W.

With short boundaries and Charles seeing the ball like a football, these are ominous signs for the hosts 11.6 Rabada to Powell, no run, that's a peach! It is straight as an arrow and clears Rabada in the deep with ease A knock to remember for the ages. 13.3 Marco Jansen to Charles, FOUR, that's innovative! A yorker length ball around leg, Charles looks to counter it but misses.

West Indies benched Roston Chase, who was hit on the bowling arm by Sisanda Magala on Saturday, in favour of Raymon Reifer and brought Jason Holder in for ...

In the process, South Africa broke the record for the most runs by a Full Member team in a powerplay - 102 - and the fastest hundred by a Full Member in T20Is. It was his fifth fifty in his last seven T20I innings and he was intent on moving through the gears from there. De Kock was then dropped on 32, when he tried to reverse-sweep Hosein and got a thin edge but Nicholas Pooran could not hold on, and he went on to make West Indies pay. Charles scored 73 of his 118 runs on the leg side, including eight of his 11 sixes, and when he was bowled, West Indies still had six overs to bat. West Indies pulled things back a touch after seeing the back of Hendricks. There's probably no better batter to get a record chase underway than de Kock and he responded in exactly the way South Africa would have wanted. West Indies were 62 for1 after the powerplay and 137 for 1 after the first 10 overs, which was their fastest start in a T20I. Magala returned to deliver the last over and could not find his yorker. [517 runs were scored](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sa-vs-wi-t20i-records-galore-517-runs-81-boundaries-35-sixes-1365380), the most in a T20 game, including 35 sixes, the most in a T20 international and two fewer than the most in any T20 match. Marco Jansen's opening over cost 20, as Charles peppered the off side and Sisanda Magala's first over went for 21 runs thanks to a merciless Mayers. Charles was 18 runs away from his century when both Mayers and Nicholas Pooran fell to Jansen but he was undeterred. De Kock's knock innings came in the second half of a run-fest on a belter of a pitch at SuperSport Park.

Opener Quinton de Kock hit a first T20 century as South Africa scored 259-4 after being set an imposing target of 13 runs per over to win the match.

TRENDING When we came out to bowl we thought we had done enough. "It was a pretty crazy game. "I said to Reeza afterwards we did something special out there. Charles scored 118 off 46 balls before being bowled by Marco Jansen, South Africa’s best bowler with 3-52.