Johannesburg, Sept. 10 -- South African cricketers Dewald Brevis and Aiden Markram shattered the SA20 Season 4 player auction records on Tuesday, with the pair becoming the most expensive buys in the history of all auctions to date.

The South African top-order batters, who were the talk of the town before going under Richard Madley's hammer, were in huge demand in Johannesburg, setting the entire cricket world abuzz during the tense bidding wars for the marquee sets.

The Pretoria Capitals, who had Indian legend and new coach Sourav Ganguly setting the bids for the Centurion franchise, won a bidding war with Joburg Super Kings to land Brevis for a whopping R16.5 million (approx. INR 8.3 crore) to become the most expensive player bought i...