Five time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians slump to their 6th consecutive defeat in the IPL 2022 after defeat against Lucknow Super Giants. However, fans were full of praise for young South African batsman Dewald Brevis.
Mumbai Indians have slipped to their 6th straight loss in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 after losing to Lucknow Super Giants in match number 1 of Super Saturday.
Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl first. However, Lucknow captain KL Rahul’s scored 103 runs in his 100th IPL match to take set a target of 200 runs for Mumbai.
And as usual, they didn’t had a great start as Rohit Sharma departed for the score of 16 runs, while he himself could only contribute with 6 runs.
After that, came in one of the most promising youngster in this year’s IPL, Dewald Brevis. The South African batter played an aggressive inning, scoring 31 runs from 13 balls, which included 6 fours and 1 six.
But, even after that, Mumbai Indians could not do well and eventually lost the match as they scored 181 runs for the loss of 9 wickets and lost the match by 18 runs.
However, Twitterati heaped praise on the 18-years-old South African’s batting. Check-out how Twitter reacted.
Seen no-look sixes, but that’s a bowler-look six. He’s looking into the bowler’s eyes and smashed a six into the second tier.
— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) April 16, 2022
Dewald Brevis 🔥#MIvLSG pic.twitter.com/tRxaiOY6wR
Dewald Brevis is ⭐ Definitely we will hear this name lots OF time. When he is Batting look like no one Can Stop him pure Class. Baby AB We all are Delightful to See you. #MIvLSG pic.twitter.com/svOowb2QkB
— Ayush Ranjan (@AyushRa15743279) April 16, 2022
Dewald Brevis !! Best young player I have seen … #IPl2022
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) April 16, 2022
Dewald Brevis is class and intent machine.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 16, 2022
“Baby AB” Dewald Brevis really is the kind of player you watch & think we’re seeing the start of something special here & we’re fortunate to see it from the get go. Just 18 years old & crushing it in the IPL. Wow.
— Neroli Meadows (@Neroli_Meadows) April 16, 2022
Don’t tell me he is just 18. What a player Dewald Brevis is. Baby ab means aggression .🔥🔥 #MIvLSG pic.twitter.com/77tbFvUeew
— LIATE (@Liateoffl) April 16, 2022
Dewald Brevis same as Rohit Sharma in term of power hitting. What a player Baby AB💪#MIvsLSG #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/I3CfYckn8k
— Ashutosh Srivastava (@kingashu1008) April 16, 2022
