South Africa smash record chase against WI in 1st 500-run T20

responsible for 11 of those sixes as he blasted his way to the joint second-fastest T20I century, and fastest by a West Indian, as they posted their highest score in the format. In the end, it was not enough.

fest on a belter of a pitch at SuperSport Park.

In total, 517 runs were scored, the most in a T20 game, including 35 sixes, the most in a T20I and two fewer than the most in any T20 match.

Johnson Charles was

It was a tough day for bowlers on both sides, who struggled to get their lengths right. Only Kagiso Rabada conceded at under 10 runs an over and there was poor discipline on both sides, especially by West Indies. They bowled 10 wides and a no-ball compared to South Africa's four wides and may see that as an important difference in the final result.

The series decider will be played about 40 kilometres away, at the Wanderers, on Tuesday. which was their fastest start in a T20I. The openers were separated at the start of the the third-highest stand for West Indies in T20I cricket – and all three of them have come against South Africaand plundered 135 runs in 58 balls at a scoring rate of just under 14 runs an over.

Guyana's number one cyclist Briton John won the 23rd annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial 55-mile cycle race in Berbice, stopping the clock at three hours, three minutes and 35 seconds. Jamual John came in second while Alexander

Leung, Romello Crawford, Curtis Dey and Alex Mendes rounded out the top six in that order. Mendes was the top veteran while Leung was the top junior. In the over50s category, Ian Jackson was the top rider.

The race started off from outside the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s Freedom House office on Main Street in New Amsterdam, then proceeded to the Springlands Police Station before returning to Babu Jaan School for the finish.

Charles and Mayers do a demolition job

The early dismissal of Brandon King dissolved into a footnote when Kyle Mayers and Charles got together for an exhibition of power-hitting that dismantled the home attack. 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. He hit the biggest six of the innings when he sent Magala 114 metres over midwicket, with the ball carrying over the hospitality suite roofs and into the practice nets. Charles brought up his fifty off 23 balls when he hit Tabraiz Shamsi over square leg, Mayers followed with a 24ball fifty, and also brought his milestone up against Shamsi.

West Indies were 62 for1 after the powerplay and 137 for 1 after the first 10 overs,

11th over, when Mayers miscued a pull off Jansen, but by then, they had shared

The carnage continues Charles was 18 runs away from his century when both Mayers and Nicholas Pooran fell to Jansen, but he was undeterred. He sent Rabada for six over square leg, then hit a Magala full toss over point for four and reached his century with a drive over extra-cover. Jansen was brought back and Charles sent him for sixes over extra-cover and long-off and then four through fine leg before he was bowled by a yorker that he seemed to have kept out, but trickled onto his stumps. 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. (ESPNcricinfo)

Scoreboard

West Indies (20 ovs maximum)

Brandon King c Hendricks b Parnell 1

Kyle Mayers c Hendricks b Jansen 51

Johnson Charles b Jansen 118

Nicholas Pooran † c Markram b Jansen 2

Rovman Powell (c) c † de Kock b Parnell 28

Romario Shepherd not out 41

Odean Smith not out 11

Extras (lb 2, w 4) 6

TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 12.90) 258/5

Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Brandon King, 0.3 ov), 2-137 (Kyle Mayers, 10.1 ov), 3-139 (Nicholas

Pooran, 10.4 ov), 4-179 (Johnson

Charles, 13.6 ov), 5-236 (Rovman Powell, 18.2 ov)

BOWLING O-M-R-W

Wayne Parnell 4-0-43-2

Aiden Markram 2-0-22-0

Kagiso Rabada 4-0-39-0

Marco Jansen 4-0-52-3

Sisanda Magala 4-0-67-0

Tabraiz Shamsi 2-0-33-0

South Africa (T: 259 runs from 20 ovs)

Quinton de Kock † c †

Pooran b Reifer 100

Reeza Hendricks c †

Pooran b Powell 68

Rilee Rossouw c King b Smith 16

David Miller c Shepherd b Holder 10

Aiden Markram (c) not out 38

Heinrich Klaasen not out 16

Extras (nb 1, w 10) 11

TOTAL 18.5 Ov (RR: 13.75) 259/4

Fall of wickets: 1-152 (Quinton de Kock, 10.5 ov), 2-180 (Rilee Rossouw, 11.6 ov), 3-193 (Reeza Hendricks, 12.4 ov), 4-216 (David Miller, 15.4 ov)

BOWLING O-M-R-W

Akeal Hosein 2-0-33-0 Sheldon Cottrell 1-0-29-0

Jason Holder 4-0-48-1

Romario Shepherd 3.5-0-44-0

Odean Smith 2-0-36-1

Raymon Reifer 4-0-42-1

Rovman Powell 2-0-27-1