Five-time champions Mumbai Indians opened their campaign in the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League against the Delhi Capitals earlier today. MI captain Rohit Sharma walked out for the toss with DC skipper Rishabh Pant. The Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to field first. Interestingly, MI did not pick Dewald Brevis in the playing XI.
Ahead of the IPL 2022 Mega Auction, all fans were excited to see which team signs Brevis because the South African U-19 cricket team star impressed everyone with his fantastic batting performances in the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2022. The rising star of South African cricket earned the nickname of ‘Baby AB’ with his wonderful batting skills.
The Mumbai Indians signed him at the IPL 2022 Mega Auction. Quite a few members of the cricket universe believed that he would get a place in the Mumbai Indians playing XI straightaway. However, the same did not happen as the Mumbai Indians picked Daniel Sams, Tymal Mills, Kieron Pollard and Tim David as the four overseas players in the playing XI.
“Would’ve bowled first as well, it’s a fresh pitch, not sure what to expect, nonetheless the wicket looks good, there’ll be initial movement for sure. We have to adapt quickly here in Mumbai with pitches being fresh. We look forward to play in Mumbai with crowd in front, obviously there’s restriction with the capacity but it’s nice to see some crowd,” said Rohit Sharma at the toss.
Twitterati disappointed seeing no Dewald Brevis in the Mumbai Indians playing XI
Here’s how cricket universe on Twitter reacted seeing no Dewald Brevis in the Mumbai Indians playing XI.
Wanted Dewald Brevis to play 🥺 #IPL
— Debadutta (@19times19times) March 27, 2022
#DewaldBrevis ??? https://t.co/onrfc3PSdV
— ManiKandan VS (@ManivsVs) March 27, 2022
Sad to not see dewald brevis.
— Yathaarth (@ymp_1832) March 27, 2022
Was hoping that 3 exciting youngsters with skyscraper high ceilings get a game today.
— Cricketjeevi (@wildcardgyan) March 27, 2022
Thanks to MI for blooding in Tilak Varma. Dewald Brevis couldn’t be played, because only 4 foreigners can.
DC, why didn’t you pick Yash Dhull? 😡😡
Dewald Brevis?
— Sandeep (@isundeep0) March 27, 2022
Preferred Daniel Sams over Dewald Brevis 👀👀👀
— RS ChaseMaster King😎🐐 (@RsChasemaster) March 27, 2022
Wanted to See Dewald Brevis @mipaltan
— M U M B A I I N D I A N S (@Imayush02) March 27, 2022
Dewald Brevis not playing…. Interesting
— Hellfire (@Sri_Hellfire) March 27, 2022
Very disappointed that we don’t get to see Dewald Brevis in Playing XI right-away.😞😞😞 #MIvsDC
— Chinmay Rane (@cvrane) March 27, 2022
