Dewald Brevis continued his excellent recent form in first-class cricket, blitzing 80 off 57 balls to give his Titans side a first innings lead over Rocks.
Responding to Rocks’ 252, propped up by former South Africa opener Pieter Malan’s century, Titans began quickly, Neil Brand making 61 and Rivaldo Moonsammy 117, each at close to a run a ball. But Brevis’ entry took things to the next level, hitting nine fours and three sixes in an explosive innings that carried his side to 247-3. The game was eventually drawn.
Dewald Brevis' incredible form continues
Brevis’ innings followed on from hitting 148 and 99 in his last two first-class innings, with both of those innings also coming at speed, though not quite at the rate of his latest assault.
The 21-year-old was rated as one of world cricket’s most exciting batting prospects when he burst onto the scene in the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, hitting 506 runs, five fifties and 18 sixes, all competition records. His efforts earned him a gig in that year’s Indian Premier League, playing for Mumbai Indians before making his South Africa debut, though he is yet to truly set the world’s most high-profile T20 competition alight.
There have been other markers of his talent, smashing 162 in 2022’s CSA T20 Challenge, the highest ever score by a South African in the format, and breaking the world record for the fastest T20 150. He has found the South Africa side hard to break into however, playing just two T20Is in 2023 thus far, with the likes of Tristan Stubbs and Lhuan-Dre Pretorius taking over as his country’s great batting hopes.
Brevis has been resurgent through 2025 however, enjoying an excellent SA20 campaign, notching the most sixes and the highest strike-rate of any batter in the competition, and has now carried his explosive form into the red-ball arena.
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