
13/09/2025
Record Tumble as PHIL SALT'S Stunning Century Leads ENGLAND To T20 Rout of SOUTH AFRICA
Phil Salt 141(60) 4-15 6-8 SR- 235
England made history, and for the first time more than 300 runs, on an extraordinary night in Manchester as they buried South Africa under a mountain of runs and shredded statistics. Their highest T20 total was turbocharged by a brilliant opening stand of 126 between Phil Salt and Jos Buttler and by their highest individual score, Salt knocking himself off the top of that chart with an unbeaten 141.
No other Englishman has scored more than a single T20 century and the 29-year-old now has four, with his 119 in Trinidad at the end of 2023, previously the nation’s all-time best, left looking almost as sorry and underpowered by the end of this evening as South Africa’s bowlers. He took only 39 balls to reach triple figures, another national record, and scarcely slowed from there. It is a measure of how remarkable his innings was that it turned Buttler’s brilliant, 30-ball 83 into a footnote.