South Africa national cricket team vs Australian men’s cricket team match scorecard: Dewald Brevis has been in remarkable form in the T20I cricket and continues to impress with his power-hitting display. He had a remarkable outing in the third and final T20I match between Australia and South Africa in Cairns on Saturday.

Brevis played a sensational knock and put on a six-hitting exhibition. He played a fiery knock of 53 runs in just 26 balls on the back of a boundary and six sixes, helping the Proteas post a challenging total of 172/7 in their 20 overs after being put into bat first. The knock also helped Brevis break a massive record of India's batting great Virat Kohli.

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The six sixes in the series decider took Brevis' tally of sixes against Australia in Australia to 14 - the most by any player. The record was previously held by Virat Kohli, who scored 12 sixes in 10 innings. Brevis, on the other hand, needed just three innings to leapfrog Kohli.

Most T20I sixes vs Australia in Australia

Dewald Brevis (SA): 14 sixes in 3 innings

Virat Kohli (IND): 12 sixes in 10 innings

Shikhar Dhawan (IND): 9 sixes in 8 innings

Andre Russell (WI): 9 sixes in 4 innings

Ravi Bopara (ENG): 7 sixes in 3 innings

Brevis had a memorable outing in Australia during the three-match T20I series and was the top run-getter with 180 runs at an average of 90 and a strike rate of 204.55.

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The right-handed batter Brevis took only 22 balls to reach his half-century, which is now the fastest for South Africa against Australia. The previous best was 25, which Brevis himself reached in the previous match in Darwin.

Fastest T20I 50s for South Africa against Australia:

22 balls: Dewald Brevis, Cairns, 2025

25 balls: Dewald Brevis, Darwin, 2025

31 balls: JP Duminy, Melbourne, 2009

Brevis is also the first batter in the world to score a fifty against the Aussies in less than 23 balls. The overall record is held by Indian skipper Rohit Sharma with a 19-ball half-century in 2024.