South African Dewald Brevis with Deon Bots, who also trained AB de Villiers and Faf du Plesis. (Figure: Special Arrangement) New Delhi: He grew up in Mohali, in the apartment 2Bhk, his favorite SHUBMAN GILLA entertainment was copied by his child hero – Virat Kohli. He would try to imitate his walk, his cover unit, his celebration and even played most of his early career with a red handkerchief tucked in his pants.About 8,782 kilometers from Mohali, in Pretoria, Brevis, Dewald and his older brother Reinard, who wore simulations of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers’ Royal Challengers (RCB), imitated both legends with simulation struggles.Brevis had a similar trajectory to Gill. Like Gill, he was portrayed as another “prince”.They both hit the wall. The form left them, the critics came out with the swords, but their heroes stood like rocks and still supported them. In 2019, when Gill first entered the Indian dressing room in New Zealand, Kohli said great, “I saw him a bat in the nets and I was like” gentlemen – I wasn’t even 10 percent when I was 19. “Similarly, de Villiers also helped Brevis in his early days. “I have been his mentor for about two years and I helped him with his launch and his attitude to cricket,” De Villiers said in 2022 Netwerk24 when the young man broke out on the U19 World Cup scene.In the last few months, Gill, the anointed prince, found his feet in a test cricket and broke 754 runs in his first test series as a captain. It was again Kohli who wrote a strange message for his successor to No. 4: “Star Boy played well. Rewriting history. Further and upwards.Similarly, at the beginning of this week, when Brevis smoked 41 hundred tables against Australia, De Villiers went Gung-ho over his regional knock and fired on the IPL teams and said, “The boy can play.”What changed for Gill and Brevis?Before SHUBMAN GILL was appointed captain of the India team test, he wanted to prove himself in England. He practiced with Red Dukes, worked on his trigger movement and was looking for help from his cricket tragic father Lakhwinder Singh Gill.GILL SR. She reminded the young man why he was such a fertile running shooter at the level of the age group and in the ranja Trophy, and asked him to “return to the foundations”. He even predicted with the confident Shaubman that he wanted to be the best dough in Anderson-Tendelkar Trophy and boy, went through an interview.
Dewald Brevis with his child coach Deon Bots. (Special arrangement)
For Dewald Brevis, he was his child coach Deon Bots – who played a huge role in the development of several South African crickets, including AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis.Botes, the professor of the economy and the former director of Sport in African Hoër Seunskol, more known as Affies, shared how the child of Prodigy fought with his dark phase and turned it.“He returned to his foundations. So I think he could technically relax with the T20 game,” Botes said Timesofindia.com.
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“In cricket T20, of course playing power plays a big role. And I think he got a little stuck with it. He played a little more cricket of the red ball in the home league, I think he just helped him to fine -tune his technique. So it looks like it just looks like it just looks.”Brevis’s redemptionLast year, after Christmas, Botes called Botes and asked for help.“Last year, December 28th, he returned to me and we worked again for three days on his game. We are just returning to the foundations, to what he was used to,” Botes shared.“He just wanted to go back to the foundations, which we did. And basically we gave him a clearer mind about what he wanted to do. Many people are talking to you and there is a lot of noise and sometimes you lose track of what you want to do and what works for you.”
Dewald Brevis with coach Deon Bots at African High School. (Special arrangement)
“At the end of last year, he came back to return to his roots, back to the foundations and found the right way for him. It was hard, but we had a lot of conversations and a lot of sitting to work.”Asked if playing too much T20 was damaged by Brevis’s technique, Botes said: “He really wanted to play the cricket at the highest level and show his skills and abilities. So I think it was never for him.“He just wanted to play and the score of running and be good. That’s basically all. Somewhere in this process, he could be a little confused about what he wanted to do. As I said, there’s a lot of noise when playing like this, with people who spoke to him as a young man.
Dewald Brevis of South African bats during the international cricket match of the T20 between Australia and South Africa in Australia Darwin, Tuesday, August 12, 2025. (Jono Searle/Aapimage via AP)
Botes feels that his department is ready to take all three storm formats.“I think he can play in all three formats for South Africa. He has played in two of them. So it’s just a 50-over game in which he has made his debut, but I think it will come now.”“Yes, I think it will be successful in all three. I think Dewald would actually appreciate a long format, cricket red ball. And I think it’s good enough to do it in all three formats,” he said.Make a way for another geneEvery cricket lover spent the moment standing in front of the mirror and trying to imitate the attitude to the hero’s launch or Bowler’s charming start and release. Most imitations end in unpleasant copies, but few of them can transfer these borrowed styles to the international scene. It’s the perfect embodiment of the proverb: False until you do it.
Cairns, Australia – August 16: Dewald Brevis of South African Bats During the game, three male international series T20 between Australia and South Africa at the Cazaly Stadium on August 16, 2025 in Australia Cairns. (Photo: Emily Barker/Getty Images)
Experts often insist that a trademark of a player or a bowling action is inimitable, something born from instinct and impossible to reproduce. Yet some young people tune the noise and constantly practice what inspires them.Take Virt Kohli and AB de Villiers. They have long been a plan for aspirating crickets. And it seems that Shaubman Gill and Dewald Brevis, their greatest admirers, unlocked this template. From the cover drive to the shooting on the lap, from the shoulder blade to the front leg, to the back sweep-gill and the brevis reflect the range of their idols with amazing ease.
