Mumbai Indians batter Dewald Brevis smashed Gujarat Titans star spinner Rashid Khan for an audacious no-look six in their opening match of IPL 2024. Brevis executed the shot on the first ball of the eighth over during Mumbai’s 169-run chase at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The 20-year-old South African has been compared with the legendary AB de Villiers due to his flamboyant 360 degree style of batting. Brevis has been with the Mumbai Indians since IPL 2022 but did not feature in the competition last season.
Brevis walked in to bat with Mumbai Indians reeling at 30 for 2, having lost the early wickets of Ishan Kishan and Naman Dhir. The South African batter stitched a 50-plus stand with former MI captain Rohit Sharma to steer his side out of trouble in their 169-run chase in Ahmedabad. The two batters added 77 runs for the third wicket before Rohit was caught LBW by R Sai Kishore in the 13th over. The former MI skipper scored 43 runs off 29 deliveries, while hitting seven boundaries and a solitary six. Brevis went on to scored 46 runs off 38 balls, while hitting two boundaries and three sixes.
The South African batter scored 161 runs in seven matches in his debut IPL season in 2022 with 49 being his highest score. Last season, he wasn’t used for even a single match but the team management decided to give him a go in MI’s opening match of IPL 2024.
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Earlier in the game, Gujarat Titans posted 168 for 6 on the scoreboard in the first innings on the back of significant contributions from B Sai Sudharsan and newly-appointed GT skipper Shubman Gill. Sai Sudharsan scored 45 runs off 39 balls, while Gill chipped in with a 22-ball 31.
The 2022 champions set MI a 169-run target with Bumrah emerging as Mumbai’s best bowler. He claimed three wickets on his IPL comeback, while giving away just 14 runs in four overs, at an economy of 3.50.
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Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill (c), B Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Sai Kishore, Spencer Johnson.
Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Shams Mulani, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chala, Jasprit Bumrah, Luke Wood.
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