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South Africa's Pretorius breaks Gayle's T20 record score
Original: South Africa’s Pretorius smashes Gayle’s T20 cricket record score https://www. aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/3 /south-afr
South African batsman Lhuan-dre Pretorius has smashed Chris Gayle's long-standing record for the highest individual score in a T20 cricket match. The 19-year-old reached his fifty in just 24 balls and went on to surpass the milestone total that Gayle set, prompting widespread reaction from fans and pundits praising the explosive innings as the arrival of a major new talent in world cricket.
Why now: A young batsman just broke one of T20 cricket's most famous records, set by Chris Gayle.
Lhuan-dre PretoriusChris GayleSouth AfricaT20 cricket
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- South Africa’s Pretorius smashes Gayle’s T20 cricket record score https://www. aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/3 /south-africas-pretorius-smashes-gayles-t20-cricket-record-score?traffic_source=rss South African Lhuan-dre Pretorius hit 50 in 24 balls, needed 16 more to reach 100… · MillMessenger@journa.host · 2
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