Alongside the bowling, Johnson Charles and Quinton de Kock rubbished perhaps of cricket's most seasoned chestnut in Centurion on Sunday. Trust me, you've heard this previously: the top notch game is the bedrock on which completely fine and genuine things should be constructed. Stray from that proclamation and you are ill-fated to disillusionment. The rationale is that no cricketer, especially the people who bat professionally, can expect to succeed except if they have dominated the abilities requested in matches booked for no less than three continuous days. Charles played every kind of strokes in his 46-ball 118. His third hundred years in the configuration yet his first at global level took off 39 balls, the quickest by a West Indian and joint second-quickest in T20I history. Had Johnson got there in five less conveyances he would have broken the world record. A large number of the shots Johnson played didn't strain the envelope of the unequivocal as much as tear it up. Most were additionally torn in another manner, as well: from the pages of what the fogeys see as the protected top notch playbook. De Kock's 44-ball 100, his most memorable hundred years for South Africa in the organization and his 6th in T20s, additionally gleamed with daringness and universality in equivalent measure. It was additionally his most memorable 100 years for South Africa in the configuration and his 6th in T20s. Charles and De Kock rolled out what might have appeared, to the hapless few destined to need to bowl to them, a progression of zingers without jokes. Here is another - Charles last played any five star cricket in December 2016 and De Kock in February 2018, not including Tests. Charles still can't seem to procure a Test cap, which isn't shocking considering he has a top of the line normal of 20.79 with one hundred years and three 50s after 65 innings. De Kock played his 54th and last Test in December 2021. He resigned with six hundreds and 22 half-hundreds of years from 91 excursions to the wrinkle. For every one of the fireworks of the 10 fours and 11 sixes that lit Charles' innings, the stroke that will stick in the memory was likewise his generally dazzlingly fragile: he shimmied far outside off to Jansen in the fourteenth, pointed minimal in excess of a top edge at the ball, and diverted it deftly through fine leg for four. De Kock's best shot was a fresh, contained punch down the ground for four off Sheldon Cottrell. It was one of nine limits he hit to go with his eight sixes, and it was disclosed with just the eighth ball De Kock confronted. Charles isn't a Test or even a prominent top notch player and De Kock has clarified his inclination for night robe over whites. But they attempted their innings in the excellent and old way, just with more tastefulness and greatness than has in the past been sufficient to hail exhibitions as uncommon. In about one Sunday evening, Charles and De Kock took batting in any sort of cricket to a level it has seldom been, if at any point. Where does generally that leave the fogeys? "Cricket shots will continuously be cricket shots, since we're playing cricket," Charles told a public interview. "Maybe you could play a football shot in a cricket match. Folks are continually advancing and figuring out how to go ahead. It's a delightful sight. I'd very much want to see the game a long time from now." Charles has played 40 T20Is yet he highlighted in none from September 2016 to October last year. That was following arriving at 50 only two times in his past 20 innings. His clarification for how he finished his six-year nonattendance from the side offered additional proof that outcome in the organization is tied in with playing appropriately: "I've changed my game in that I've returned to the essentials, ensured that I have that hush. It's worked for me. Assuming I keep on doing that I'll keep having extraordinary innings." That's what charles recognized "with such a decent pitch and on a little field you don't need to over-raise a ruckus around town", however fighting off the desire to do so takes discipline. Kyle Mayers and Charles conveyed a masterclass in precisely that in their 58-ball stand of 135. Reeza Hendricks and De Kock took cues from them and shared 152 off 65. On one more day Hendricks' 68 off 28 - a strike pace of 242.85 - would have dominated the game. On Sunday this nearly downplayed presentation everything except remained unnoticed. However, Aiden Markram referred to Hendricks' batting in his TV interview: "You discuss playing going after cricket yet that doesn't mean you need to trudge everything." Additionally on TV, De Kock had acclaim for his accomplice: "He was a remarkable quiet professional killer. We told each other after he got out [in the 13th], 'Jeez, we've accomplished something uniquely amazing'." In his presser, Hendricks - cramp kept De Kock in the changing area - battled his own corner: "T20 considers typical cricket shots. It's as yet your ordinary strokeplay. You don't need to go out there and swing from the hips from ball one. T20 actually considers great cricket. Each and every individual who contributed today played great cricket shots." What's more, they understood 517 runs, the most elevated total in the 2,032 men's T20Is yet played. Just six first innings outperformed West Indies' 258/5. No answer has been greater than South Africa's 259/4, came to with seven balls in excess. No group have hit a bigger number of sixes in an innings than the Windies' 22. No match at this level has conveyed a greater number of sixes than Sunday's 35, nor a bigger number of fours than its 46. Never has a more noteworthy level of the runs in a T20I been hit in fours and sixes: 76.21%. De Kock broke his own record for South Africa's quickest 50 by arriving in 15 conveyances.