With a blistering century backed by a fiery fifty, 22-year-old Dewald Brevis has arrived on the international arena in style. Just like his childhood hero, AB de Villiers, Brevis can play the lap shot, scoop, switch hit, ramp, and reverse sweep. He is finally showing his class, and his coach Deon Botes, who also coached De Villiers and Faf du Plessis, shares how the child prodigy battled his dark phase and turned it around by going back to the basics.
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