AB de Villiers and JP Duminy achieve individual records in T20 Internationals
AB de Villers scored seven boundary sixes while JP Duminy scored seven boundary sixes in the first T20I game against India at Dharmsala on 02.10.15 and helped themselves to individual records which are listed below
AB de Villers scored seven boundary fours in this game to take his boundary fours aggregate in T20Is to 102. He became the 17th batsman to score 100 plus boundary fours in the history of T20Is. He also became the third South African batsman to score 100 plus boundary fours. Others are – GC Smith {123} and JP Duminy {111}. JP Duminy’s 111 boundary fours include the lone boundary four he scored in this game
JP Duminy scored seven boundary sixes in this game which gave him an aggregate of 51 boundary sixes at the end of this game. He became the ninth batsman to score 50 plus boundary sixes in the history of T20Is and the first South African batsman to achieve the distinction.
JP Duminy became the sixth batsman in the history of T20Is to score 100 plus boundary fours and 50 plus boundary sixes. The following table lists all the six batsmen with their performances.
| No | Player | Team | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 0 | 4s | 6s |
| 1 | BB McCullum | NZl | 71 | 70 | 10 | 2140 | 123 | 35.66 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 199 | 91 |
| 2 | DA Warner | Aus | 53 | 53 | 3 | 1448 | 90* | 28.96 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 137 | 66 |
| 3 | MJ Guptill | NZl | 52 | 50 | 6 | 1414 | 101* | 32.13 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 129 | 53 |
| 4 | CH Gayle | Win | 45 | 43 | 3 | 1406 | 117 | 35.15 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 122 | 87 |
| 5 | JP Duminy | RSA | 62 | 57 | 17 | 1498 | 96* | 37.45 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 111 | 51 |
| 6 | EJG Morgan | Eng | 52 | 51 | 10 | 1225 | 85* | 29.87 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 105 | 51 |
JP Duminy scored seven boundary sixes in this game to provide the 22nd occasion of a batsman scoring seven or more boundary sixes in an innings in the history of T20I games. It also provides the fourth occasion of a South African batsman performing such a feat. The following table lists the four South African batsmen
| No | Player | Runs | 6s | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date |
| 1 | RE Levi | 117* | 13 | South Africa | v New Zealand | Hamilton | 19 Feb 2012 |
| 2 | LE Bosman | 94 | 9 | South Africa | v England | Centurion | 15 Nov 2009 |
| 3 | MN van Wyk | 114* | 7 | South Africa | v West Indies | Durban | 14 Jan 2015 |
| 4 | JP Duminy | 68* | 7 | South Africa | v India | Dharamsala | 02 Oct 2015 |
JP Duminy’s 68 not out in this game represent his eighth fifty in T20Is. He now owns the record for most fifties by a South African batsman in T20Is. He went past F du Plessiss who had scored seven fifties.