Dewald Brevis , the holder of the highest individual T20I score for South Africa , broke the SA20 pay record and was picked up for R16.5 million (approx US$945,000) by Pretoria Capitals (PC).

Bidding for Brevis, whose base price was R500,000 (approx US$28,500), was opened by the Joburg Super Kings (JSK). They were in a fierce battle with Paarl Royals (PR) up until the R10 million mark. PR, who only had a purse of R14.5 million going in, then opted out but PC entered the contest. They had a bidding war with JSK, who offered R16 million, but bowed out when PC raised it by R500,000. PC used up more than half their available purse of R32.5 million on Brevis.

Brevis also became the second player to break the R10 million rand mark, 12 minutes after South Africa's T20I captain and tw

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