Younger South African batting star Dewald Brevis has joined Hampshire Hawks for the complete length of the 2025 males’s Vitality Blast.
He additionally has the choice to play pink ball cricket within the Rothesay County Championship.
The 21-year-old rose to fame within the 2022 ICC Males’s U19 World Cup the place he scored a mammoth 506 runs with two centuries and three fifties in simply six innings.
Since then, he has gone on to signify Mumbai Indians within the IPL, MI New York in MLC, and MI Cape City within the SA20 together with St Kitts & Nevis Patriots (Caribbean Premier League), and Morrisville Samp Military and New York Strikers (each within the Abu Dhabi T10).
Dewald Brevis mentioned: “I’m massively enthusiastic about becoming a member of Hampshire Hawks for the Vitality Blast this summer season, the staff has an important historical past within the competitors, and I stay up for being part of that.
“It’s nice we’ve got Lhuan-dre with us as effectively and hopefully we will placed on a superb present and entertain the gang at Utilita Bowl on our technique to reaching Finals Day and lifting the trophy.
“I’m additionally trying ahead to taking part in within the County Championship, the staff have been so shut final 12 months, and I hope I will help the membership push for the title in 2025.”
T20 Prowess
In his quick profession thus far, Brevis has scored 1,787 runs in 81 T20 matches at a mean of 26.27 with a strike price of 144.93.
He has one century – 162 off 57 balls within the CSA T20 Problem in October 2022 – and 7 fifties.
On this 12 months’s SA20, Brevis scored 291 runs – the second most for MI Cape City and sixth most total – while hanging at 184.
Brevis has additionally scored greater than 1000 runs in 17 First-Class matches with three a whole bunch and 5 half-centuries.
Giles White, Director of Cricket, mentioned: “Dewald is an distinctive younger participant who will add firepower to our batting lineup this summer season.
He’ll arrive having loved good current kind, and alongside Lhuan-dre Pretorius we may have two younger cricketers which can be hungry to make their mark.”
Hampshire Hawks get their males’s Vitality Blast marketing campaign underway with a double-header at Utilita Bowl on Friday 30 Could in opposition to Essex.
Three additional males’s and ladies’s double-headers happen on Tuesday 17 June, Sunday 6 July, and Sunday 13 July.
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