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Chennai Super Kings has a brand new member. He has younger, has IPL expertise and most significantly will present fire-power to the MS Dhoni-led facet’s middle-order. Chennai Super Kings have solely two wins in seven matches within the IPL 2025 and are final within the 10-team league. Barring Rachin Ravindra and Shivam Dube to some extent, not one of the different batters have performed huge knocks. MS Dhoni’s cameos in the direction of the tip of the innings are there however CSK wanted a participant who might present them with batting stability. CSK have now acquired that participant in South Africa’s Dewald Brevis.
After damage compelled quick bowler Gurjapneet Singh to be dominated out of the IPL 2025, CSK roped within the 21-year-old Brevis.
“Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have signed South Africa’s Dewald Brevis as a replacement for the injured Gurjapneet Singh for the remainder of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Dewald Brevis has played 81 T20s and scored 1787 runs with a highest score of 162. He made his T20I Debut for South Africa in 2023 and has played 2 T20Is so far. Brevis was previously part of Mumbai Indians (MI), where he played 10 matches. He will join CSK for INR 2.2 Crore,” the IPL mentioned in an official assertion.
Dewald Brevis scored 506 runs within the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He is the holder of the document for many runs in a single version of Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Dewald Brevis is the youngest South African to attain a century in males’s T20s. Brevis took 52 balls to achieve 150 in his knock of 162, the quickest in T20 cricket historical past, in a match for Titans towards Knights within the CSA T20 Challenge.
The younger batter, dubbed as ‘Baby AB’ as a result of placing resemblance of his batting fashion with the legendary AB de Villiers, has made a reputation for himself in CPL, MLC, and SA20, the place he was the sixth-highest run-scorer with 291 at a strike fee of 184.17, as MI Cape Town gained their first title.
CSK had beforehand signed Mumbai and India U19 batter Ayush Mhatre as a substitute for injured captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, who was dominated out of the competitors as a result of an elbow fracture. Brevis has sparked hypothesis of a mid-season entry for CSK in IPL 2025 after posting a cryptic yellow image on his Instagram publish on Friday afternoon.
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