{"id":18732,"date":"2025-09-10T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:04:10","slug":"gangulys-pretoria-team-lands-big-hitting-brevis-for-record-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18732","title":{"rendered":"Ganguly’s Pretoria team lands big-hitting Brevis for record price"},"content":{"rendered":"
Coach Sourav Ganguly splashed out a record 16.5-million rand ($941,000) to land big-hitting Dewald Brevis for his Pretoria Capitals franchise in the SA20 auction in Johannesburg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The former India captain won a bidding war against former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming, who wanted Brevis for the Joburg Super Kings.<\/p>\n

The price paid for Brevis eclipsed the record of R14-million ($798,000) which took South African T20 international captain Aiden Markram to Durban Super Giants just minutes earlier.<\/p>\n

Markram was the first player to breach the R10-million barrier for the tournament, which will be played from December 26 to January 25.<\/p>\n

Ganguly said he hoped home-town player Brevis’ six-hitting would be suited to the Capitals’ home ground at Centurion, known as a high-scoring venue.<\/p>\n

“He’s a tremendous talent,” said Ganguly. “He’s really gone forward in the last one-and-a-half years. He’s a game changer and that’s what you need in T20 cricket.”<\/p>\n

Brevis went to the same school as South African star AB de Villiers and early in his career was nicknamed ‘Baby AB’ for the similarities in their playing styles.<\/p>\n

After scoring only five in his first two T20I innings in 2023, Brevis, 22, returned in July.<\/p>\n

He made a South African T20 international record 125 not out against Australia in Darwin last month, an innings that included eight sixes.<\/p>\n

He has hit 313 in eight innings since his return, at an average of 52.16.<\/p>\n

South African players attracted the biggest bids in the auction.<\/p>\n

Wiaan Mulder, Matthew Breetzke, Rassie van der Dussen, Nandre Burger, Anrich Nortje, Gerald Coetzee and Ottneil Baartman all sold for R5-million or more.<\/p>\n

Several overseas players went unsold but fast bowlers Australia’s Dan Worrall (Joburg Super Kings) and England’s Saqib Mahmood (Pretoria Capitals) both fetched R1.5-million.<\/p>\n

England’s Craig Overton went to the Pretoria team for R1-million.<\/p>\n

Veteran former England bowler James Anderson, 43, was up for auction at a base price of R1-million but attracted no bids.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s World Test Championship winning captain Temba Bavuma went unsold at the minimum base price of R200,000.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coach Sourav Ganguly splashed out a record 16.5-million rand ($941,000) to land big-hitting Dewald Brevis for his Pretoria Capitals franchise in the SA20 auction in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The former India captain won a bidding war against former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming, who wanted Brevis for the Joburg Super Kings. The price paid for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}