MI has always been one of my favourite teams: Dewald Brevis

One of the recent teen sensations to have emerged out of the 2022 U19 World Cup was South Africa’s Dewald Brevis. The 18-year-old cricketer grabbed the attention of the entire cricketing world for his immaculate stroke play and more so for an uncanny resemblance to the former South African legend, AB de Villiers, in terms of how he went about with his batsmanship. The young cricketer who was titled ‘Baby AB’ after his heroics at the World Cup, was a hot property at the IPL mega auction, eventually being bought by the five-time champions Mumbai Indians for INR 3 crore. Speaking on the same, Brevis expressed his fondness for the franchise.

He further revealed watching the Netflix documentary ‘Cricket Fever’ released in 2019 which follows Mumbai’s journey through an IPL season. The right-handed batter talked about getting an insight into the team seeing them as one big family after watching the said documentary.

“MI has always been one of my favourite teams. We were in isolation before the U19 World Cup and I watched the Netflix documentary ‘Cricket Fever’. I can sense that familiar feeling and how the players are one big family,” Brevis said while speaking to Mumbai Indian’s official website.

It will be tough to face Jasprit Bumrah – Dewald Brevis

The young prodigal talent also appeared to be in awe of his captain at the IPL, Rohit Sharma. While talking about the talismanic Indian batter, Brevis spoke highly of Sharma’s ability to take bowling attacks to the cleaners and also spoke of him looking ahead to sharing the dressing room with the batter. He further mentioned Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer as the two other players he is excited to have as his teammates.

“I would love to share the dressing room with Rohit Sharma. He is a wonderful batter, smokes the bowlers and I have seen him rise through the ranks over the years. I am grateful that both Jofra Archer and Jasprit Bumrah are on the team. I think it will be tougher to face Bumrah, I have seen him bowl live at Supersport Park (in Centurion) for India against South Africa and it is surreal that I will be facing him in the nets soon,” he added.