Mumbai Indians’ Dewald Brevis on Wednesday justified all the hype around him by hitting Punjab Kings’ Rahul Chahar for four humongous sixes in one over. The 18-year-old was ultimately dismissed for 49 runs off 25 ball at the MCA Stadium, Pune.
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Brevis, who is 18 years old, is referred to as Baby AB – after AB de Villiers, one of the best batsmen cricket has seen. Against PBKS, chasing 199 runs, the South African turned beast when leg-spinner Rahul Chahar came on to bowl the ninth over.
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Relive the over:
8.1: Tilak Varma inside-edged Chahar towards square leg for a single.
8.2: Chahar went with a shortish ball. Brevis smashed it past the bowler with brute force for a boundary.
8.3: Dewald Brevis deposited Rahul Chahar’s floated delivery over long-on for a clean six.
8.4: Brevis went down on a knee and did an AB de Villiers – smoking the ball over wide long-on for an even bigger six.
8.5: The 18-year-old brought up the hattrick of sixes by slamming Chahar’s quicker ball over deep mid-wicket for six.
8.6: Dewald Brevis hit the last ball, a loopy leg-spinner, over long on
The over went for 29 runs and the required run rate that was touching 11 at one point dropped to below 9.
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Tilak Varma, on the other end, kicked off the next over by top-edging Vaibhav Arora for a boundary over the wicketkeeper’s head. The MI batsman then smashed the fifth ball of the 10th over for a six.
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Just when the two were taking the game away from PBKS, Odean Smith got Mayank Agarwal a wicket. On the last ball of the 12th over, Dewald Brevis, who was on 49, miscued a pull and Arshdeep Singh gobbled a catch at deep backward square leg. The South African finished his innings with four boundaries and five sixes.
