Tom Moody Applauds Rising Cricket Sensation Dewald Brevis

Former Australian cricketer Tom Moody has commended the South African batter Dewald Brevis. He applauded Brevis for his consistency as a middle-order batter.

Brevis ended his debut season with CSK on a high note, hitting a fast half-century. He helped his team finish their underwhelming season with a win over GT.

He played 10 games for MI from 2022-2024, scoring 230 runs at an average of 23 and a strike rate of 133.72. This season for CSK, he scored 225 runs in 6 matches at an average of 37.50 and a strike rate of 180.00, including two fifties. He joined CSK mid-season as a replacement for injured bowler Gurjanpreet Singh.

‘A real acceleration of consistency’

Speaking in a video by ESPNCricinfo, Moody said:

“Over the last twelve months, there is a real acceleration of consistency in a different role to what we originally saw him. When he first came, you know, there was a lot of noise around ‘Baby AB’ (Brevis’ nickname due to the similarities of bat swing with legendary AB de Villiers), which you have to feel sorry for him in that situation because there’s nothing been there’s nothing worse than being labeled, you know, underneath a former great. You know, the expectations go through the roof.”

“But he was at the top of the order there at the Mumbai Indians. And so Mumbai Indians did the right thing and identified a really exciting young talent, which Mumbai have done historically pretty well, but it was too early for him to have the consistent impact you would hope for an overseas player,” he added.

Brevis has done exceptionally well

Moody also mentioned that in the past year or so, Brevis has emerged as a dynamic middle-order batsman.

“And he has done it exceptionally well in the SA20 and the brief visits he has had with CSK. So it is an important piece to CSK’s puzzle because they have been so dependent just on (Shivam) Dube playing that impact role. So if you have got a right-hander and a left-hander, which they potentially have now moving forward at five and six, you can really build something considerable around, you know, that formula. Because one thing we were critical of was in the early parts of CSK was their lack of ability to target boundaries, and you got two good boundary hitters there,” he concluded.

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