If there’s one cricketer, in particular, who deserves to be talked a great deal about at this time, then it’s Dewald Brevis. And that’s speaking facts. Forget just the attacking strokes and the ability to change the context of a game single handedly. It’s the sheer consistency with which the Proteas batter is conducting himself against his African opponents that needs to be talked about.

How so?

In the solid and highly interesting tri-series T20I contests that are currently taking place , it appears as though South Africa have quite simply unleashed a new looking, freshly reinvigorated Dewald Brevis to torment their opponents or challengers. That is no random speak either!

In the 3 contests held so far, the attacking right hander has managed scores of 75 off just 50 deliveries (against Namibia), which was followed by twin sparking knocks against Zimbabwe- unbeaten 75 off just 32 and a brisk 41 off just 27 odd deliveries.

It almost seems as though there’s a fresh new purpose to the way Brevis is batting. No more is he concerned with the fact, whether or not, there is scoreboard pressure. At the very same time he is not even concerned about the fact whether there is that burdening comparison with him being dubbed “AB..baby”.

Most recently he struck two no look sixes and that too, consecutively in his most recent T20 international outing against Zimbabwe.

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The no look shot, in particular, is one of the more impressive and visually striking elements of the modern day T20 game. In a format that’s already competitive marked by hyper aggressive stroke play, it’s the kind of stroke that further brings fans to their edge of seats.

Furthermore, the no look shot was initially popularised by the likes of West Indian Andre Fletcher but is now being increasingly used by several world batters such as Brevis as we’ve talked about and even dazzling Indian batters such as Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant.

But then to be able to succeed with the no look shot, one needs a certain amount of self belief and pure skill which is what Dewald Brevis is bringing to the table. Isn’t it?