Dewald Brevis was called in as a mid-season replacement by CSK
South African youngster Dewald Brevis will play his first match for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) after he was named in the team’s playing XI for the IPL 2025 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Chennai on Friday. Ahead of their previous match against Mumbai Indians, CSK had acquired the services of South African batting sensation Dewald Brevis as a replacement for injured Tamil Nadu seamer Gurjapneet Singh.
However, they didn’t play the youngster right away against his former side. MI outclassed their arch-rivals with a thumping nine-wicket victory at the Wankhede. The 21-year-old has previously played for Mumbai Indians (MI) in the IPL. This will be his third season in the IPL.
Dewald Brevis has replaced New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra in the Chennai Super Kings playing XI.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Pat Cummins(c), Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Zeeshan Ansari, Mohammed Shami.
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Shaik Rasheed, Ayush Mhatre, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni(w/c), Deepak Hooda, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Travis Head, Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder
Chennai Super Kings Impact Subs: Anshul Kamboj, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Jamie Overton.
Chennai Super Kings are looking to get out of the bottom place of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 table when they face Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday at the Chepauk Stadium.
If they beat ninth-placed SRH, they will rise to eighth in the table after Rajasthan Royals lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday.
Ahead of their clash against SRH, head coach Stephen Fleming more or less revealed if CSK will play Brevis.
“He’s one of the options that we’ll look at. We’ve got other players as well who have been with us for the whole tournament. Brevis is a good addition to the squad, but we just have to manage what we think would be the best team, given the players that have been working away with us, and also look at the impact that Brevis can have. So that’s part of the discussion,” Fleming said in the pre-match press conference.
CSK had handed a debut to Mumbai’s teenage batting sensation Ayush Mhatre who scored an assured 32 off 15 at No.3 against MI.
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After going unsold in the IPL 2025 auction in November, Brevis has been in monstrous form in South Africa. In the SA20 2024-25, the 21-year-old smashed 291 runs from 12 games at a strike rate of 184 to help MI Cape Town lift their maiden trophy.
In the domestic List-A competition, Brevis led the run-scoring charts for the Titans with 398 runs from just seven matches at an average of 66.33.
Bringing him in is unlikely to cause a big change in CSK’s fortunes as their batting has been in terrible shape in IPL 2025. Their last six matches are a must-win, but there are other results that need to go in their favour in order to qualify for the play-offs.
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