Teenage sensation Dewald Brevis smashed an historic 162 off simply 57 balls for the Titans within the CSA T20 Challenge on Monday.
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Brevis, who remains to be solely 19, performed for the Mumbai Indians on this yr’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
He is thought to be one of the brightest prospects in South African cricket, along with his type of batting drawing clear-cut comparisons with Proteas legend AB de Villiers.
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De Villiers was one of those that commented on Twitter as social media went wild as consideration was drawn to Brevis’ fairly sensational innings towards the Knights.
His century included 13 fours and 13 sixes.
His rating was the third highest particular person rating in all T20 cricket historical past.
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Dewald Brevis might be one of the gamers within the highlight when the inaugural T20 League takes place in South Africa subsequent yr.
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MI Cape Town have already introduced the signing of 5 star gamers forward of the inaugural Cricket South Africa T20 League, which included Brevis.
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The MI Cape Town group contains three overseas gamers Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone (each England) and Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) together with Brevis and Kagiso Rabada as half of the squad.
Mr. Akash Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio, stated, “I’m excited as we begin our journey in building “MI Cape Town”. With our direct participant signings, we’ve taken step one in direction of constructing the MI philosophy having a powerful core round which the group might be deliberate. I’m glad to welcome Rashid, Kagiso, Liam, Sam, to the #OneFamily and glad to have Dewald proceed with us on this new journey. We are sure that MI Cape Town, like the 2 different groups, will play the model of cricket MI is synonymous with-playing fearless cricket, and the identical will resonate with the passionate cricket followers of South Africa and internationally.”.
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