The Chennai Tremendous Kings, who’ve gained the IPL title 5 occasions, made a giant information announcement on Friday. They introduced in South African all-rounder Dewald Brevis to affix their workforce. This transfer got here after medium pacer Gurjapneet Singh needed to sit out the complete season as a consequence of an damage.
Surprisingly, though Brevis had a beginning value of simply Rs 75 lakh throughout the huge public sale, Chennai determined to signal him for Rs 2.2 crore. Normally, when a workforce wants to interchange an Indian participant, they’ve to choose one other Indian, however Chennai had an additional spot for an abroad participant left after the IPL 2025 public sale, so it labored out for them to get Brevis on board.
At solely 21 years previous, Brevis is already making waves within the cricket world. He’s typically known as ‘Child AB’ as a result of he appears to be like and performs so much just like the well-known AB de Villiers. Though he has solely performed two T20 matches for South Africa and scored simply 5 runs, cricket specialists have excessive hopes for him, believing he has loads of potential.
Only in the near past, Brevis performed for the Titans within the CSA 4-Day Collection Division 1 match, the place he shined as one of many high gamers, scoring 573 runs in 12 innings at a stable common of 47.75. Earlier than this newest signing, he had already appeared in 10 video games for the Mumbai Indians within the Indian Premier League. As well as, he’s additionally concerned within the Main League Cricket and SA20 leagues.
It’s thrilling to see how Brevis will deliver his abilities to the Chennai Tremendous Kings and what he’ll obtain within the upcoming matches!